Standing there, waiting in the shadows like shadows of shadows, unseen and unmoving except for the wizard's throbbing, turgid wand, they were surprised when the tsunami crashed onto their heads, shorting out the wand with a wall of water and bringing the building in the shadow of which they had been waiting down upon them them, burying them under tons of concrete and steel and flattening their corpulent corpses like they were water balloons filled with blood dropped from top of the Eiffel Tower upon the crowds below.