A hot blue bolt of energy sizzled a few inches to my right.

A crackling blue bolt struck Sam in the throat and sent him reeling into the wall unit.

Energy darted from the gun-but not the blazing blue bolt.

He ran on, heedless of direction, just trying to avoid the blue bolts and yellow flames.

A blue bolt sizzled the ground behind him and he had to hop to one side.

It was lightning, he realized, a big blue bolt.

Several pods had taken to the rooftops here and were throwing blue bolts at anything that moved.

A shower of sparks and short blue bolts issued from the machine within the globe.

A second man jumped out of a doorway, blue bolts crackling past Friday's head as he tumbled behind the desk.

The crackling blue bolt hit him square between the eyes.