"A lightning storm?" Ford echoed, brow furrowing slightly. For someone who had already been worried about this process, learning that it was to take place during inclement weather wasn't the instilling him with any additional confidence. "You don't have to... do anything with the lightning, do you?" Ford didn't even know what that would entail — he had never done anything in lightning except go inside. Were there spells that allowed wizards to catch lightning in their hands or put it in a bottle or channel it through their veins or something ridiculous and dangerous like that? Was Tycho going to do anything like that? (And, of course: what happened if it went wrong?)

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