dodges McCoy's attack

Hell’s bells, was he better than me.
That was Ebenezar McCoy, the Blackstaff, the most feared wizard on planet Earth.
Without pause the old man’s staff struck the boards of the dock, and they bowed up in a straight line coming toward me, as if an enormous shark was swimming toward me beneath the dock, its dorsal fin bumping up the wood.
I slammed my staff down and vaulted over the oncoming wave of energy as it passed, and as I came down, I beckoned the winds, focused my will, shouted, “Ventas arctis!”


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