A shard of purple light sliced through the wind. It curved in air and divided each spirit it struck into nothingness. Blue Hair cartwheeled off a well-placed bubble to evade but the arrow continued through Delaney's body and into the beyond afterward. A second arrow followed the first, and a third in a different direction, and a fourth and a fifth and soon an uncountable number in every conceivable direction, until it seemed impossible that even a demigod could draw so many arrows with such rapidity. Several struck Erika, but she held the pendant that was her gem in one hand to keep it safe and cared nothing for anything else. Delaney did not put especial focus into healing her.

(Chapter 41)