Magical Ball With Distractor Spell
To demonstrate the power of a distractor spell, Coulter shows Kendra and Seth a silvery ball, about the size of a baseball. With the distractor spell it is very hard, and nearly impossible, to grab because it always redirects your focus to something else when you concentrate on it. The only people in the book that can retrieve the ball are Kendra and Coulter; Kendra, because ever since becoming fairykind, she is immune to mind control spells, and Coulter because he has practiced concentrating on something next to the ball but keep the ball in the back of his mind. Once he is focusing on something near the ball, and he glimpses the ball, he snatches it before becoming distracted. Distractor spells are used in the books primarily as border protections to magical preserves. Kendra's immunity to distractor spells became necessary in her future adventurings.
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