「One evening, about a week later.」
Colin and Kase were hiding in a patch of reeds by a small river.
They stared intently at several mallards gliding across the river's surface. The wild ducks swam in fits and starts, bobbing their pointed tails. Every so often, they would peck at the duckweed on the surface, then tilt their necks back to swallow it with a gulp of water.
Colin carefully opened his Spellbook and began to recite a Spell he had previously learned and recorded within its pages.
A barely perceptible blue speck of light flickered to life among the ducks.
As he uttered the final syllable, a torrent of water erupted from the blue speck, almost instantly coalescing into a sphere that completely imprisoned the mallards.
"It really worked, Colin!" Kase exclaimed, slapping him excitedly on the shoulder.
