The elemental swept to within thirty meters of the truck before it was snuffed out like a smoker’s match dropped in the rain. The chatter of automatic weapons began to fill the night, almost mundane in comparison. Dwarfing it, a fireball burst above the chapel and began to expand even as Geraint looked on, mushrooming until it encountered an invisible hemispheric bather. It cascaded down the sides of the barrier, spluttered, and died.