Is she in the States? There's the flashpanic moment of that thought, then the demon comes swooping in again and she barely ducks out of the way on time - barely, because she feels some of her life force get sucked up into this not-a-Dementor, and it comes with a dizzy spell.

Desperate times call for desperate measures. When someone shouts at her to cast her magic sideways, she is quick to decide that he doesn't mean for her to hold her wand sideways.

An unusual way of casting spells in her world is non-verbal spells. She decides, might as well now. Incendio, she thinks but does not say, slicing her wand across the air in front of her - it sends a mote of pure fire at the demon, making it screech in anger.


"Ah! It worked? I - how did that - more tips, please!"