A beam of crackling, blue energy lances out toward a creature within range, forming a sustained arc of lightning between you and the target. Make a ranged spell attack against that creature. On a hit, the target takes 1d8 lightning damage plus your spellcasting ability modifier and it makes a Constitution saving throw. On a failed save its speed is reduced to 0 until the spell ends. On each of your turns for the duration, you can use your action to deal 1d8 lightning damage plus your spellcasting ability modifier to the target automatically. The spell ends if you use your action to do anything else. The spell also ends if the target is ever outside the spell’s range or if it has total cover from you.

At Higher Levels. When you cast this spell using a spell slot of 2nd level or higher, the damage increases by 1d8 for each slot level above 1st. -* (a twig from a tree that has been struck by lightning)