Strange can indeed raise some ground. He nods at Lambert, bends down, and starts muttering a whole chain of spells under his breath. It's the same spell that he cast back in the Athenaeum: raise the earth under their feet as quickly as possible.

It takes him a few seconds to cast the spell, but it does. A large portion of ground shoots up in a pillar from underneath Strange's feet, boosting him, Lambert, and any other flightless carnival members near the two up from the ground, away from the water.