Better make this fast. Sloan swung out from the jeep's cover, registered Woodbury's location in a millisecond (hovering above the self-help section), and fired.

Woodbury flicked her wand and turned her space beam at the encroaching field of light. The two streams met over the cookbooks in a hyperactive splash of pink and yellow, but Sloan's magic quickly and easily overpowered Woodbury's. The light sliced through the candy stars and surged at Woodbury's frail and undefended body, her jade Soul Gem exposed on the frilly lace around her neck.

(Chapter 16)