" They stared at her, all of them, mouths agape, scrambling backwards on the ground. Even her hair snapped with it, wildly writhing around her head, as power uncoiled from her core and flowed to her extremities.
She hurled it from her fingertips at the bastard Vespasian Jones. His eyes flew wide with shock, and then he whipped a wand from his sleeve—a wand!

Then her own Dark power slammed back into her and through her. "

― Patricia Burroughs