" Fred coughed, which caused Sam and Ellie to look over at her. “Hey, Ellie. Watch this.”
Mentally apologizing to her oldest friend, Fred seized Jonas by the shirt collar and
heaved him out of his chair and through the (fortunately open) sliding door.
Jonas was densely built (“Deliciously so,” Dr. Barb might have said over the sound of
Fred’s retching), but no match for Fred’s hybrid strength, and the air velocity he achieved
was really quite something.
Fred ignored his wail (“My sundaeeee!”), which became easier to do the fainter it got. "

― MaryJanice Davidson , Swimming Without a Net (Fred the Mermaid, #2)