He was ten yards short of Kate when the bubble suddenly darkened. A moment later, the horse glowed a blinding incandescent white and a line of golden fire shot across the taser wires. For the briefest instant, he heard a piercing scream from Kate, but it was cut off before it could properly form, as she and the old man also turned ghostly, and then all three were gone, leaving nothing behind but twin trails of scorched sand and a broken strobe light.