Light? Well, he had expected lightning, but that made very little difference. He made a circling gesture with his hand, a figure eight -- or rather an taiji-- then, focused, fed a precise measure of yang into the yin of the light, dispersing the arrows.

That wasn't too far from the underpinnings of Taijiquan, by the way.

"Any practitioner of 'magick', or willworking, on my world could do that if they'd studied the proper way," he said, lowering his hand.