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Post by Felicity Hjort on May 18, 2007 22:37:09 GMT -5
Winding down the aisles, she lead him to a corner that was surprisingly empty; which was a good thing because if she'd known about what some of the kids used them for, she would have taken him back up to the fourth floor. Turning around to look at him she smiled, she really was glad things seemed to be better between them, and the blond hoped it would be as fun learning this spell as it had been last time he'd taught her.
"So," she smiled up at him. "I know what the spell is supposed to do, and I actually know the incantation, and I think I'm doing the movements right, but it doesn't seem to be working." Again she thought about her wand having its own personality and that it must have hated her. If it were a person it would have been doing its darndest to make her an enemy, something she wouldn't have allowed to happen easily of course. It just didn't work properly, then again it could have been because it was a higher level spell.
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Post by Drew Thornton on May 18, 2007 23:58:21 GMT -5
"Okay, so we practice again, right?" Drew asked, figuring it worked last time. He was pretty confident it wasn't her wand and really wasn't her technique. Maybe it was just a confidence thing.
"You said you had a noisemaker that your dad had sent you?" he prompted, proving he had been listening even when he had been upset with her. He was a little worried about how noisy it might be, considering they were in the library and all, but if it was really loud, he could muffle it a little.
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Post by Felicity Hjort on May 19, 2007 0:08:26 GMT -5
Nodding her head and completely forgetting the last time she'd done so so vigorously, she pulled the toy out of her pocket while hoping the dizziness would wear off. It was a tiny contraption, small enough to rest easily in the palm of her hand, smaller than the owl Drew had sent her with her things, but not miniscule. It was a miniature jack-in-the-box, one that played all on its own, once wound by the sprig on the bottom, without any sort of magical enhancements needed. The blond almost wondered if her dad had made it himself, or if he had actually bought it, it wouldn't have surprised her if he had.
Handing over the intricately carved yellow box, complete with red handle, she looked at Drew and hoped he knew what a jack-in-the-box was. The toy didn't provide a large amount of noise, but it was enough to practice with.
"Practice makes perfect," she said quietly. Although she had practiced many times before, she knew it hadn't made anything perfect. "Do you just want to watch me have a go at it first, or did you have pointers?" she inquired, almost hoping he would have a few suggestions so she didn't make a complete fool of herself.
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Post by Drew Thornton on May 19, 2007 0:25:34 GMT -5
Drew took the toy, looking it over carefully. It looked like something more special than someone might pick up at Toys'r'Us and he wondered if Felicity was still setting things on fire with her spells.
"Yeah, let me see you do it first," Drew said, thinking this way he could see what, if anything, was happening to keep the spell from working. That way, he could give better pointers. He carefully wound the spring and placed the toy on the floor, hoping she didn't wreck it on her first shot out.
Well, better that than a bird like they had used in class, right?
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Post by Felicity Hjort on May 19, 2007 0:35:02 GMT -5
"All right," she replied and watched him set it up for her. Pulling her wand out, she thought for a moment, replaying how everything went before casting. Gentle movements with her wand, as much confidence as she could muster with her voice, pronounciation, aim, and...nothing. The toy played on, it hadn't ended just yet as it played its notes for a while before popping out.
Really the man that jumped out was a bit frightening. Green clothing and hat, a white painted face with blue gypsy make-up, not the most pleasant of visuals to the blond. And the noise created when he did pop out was horrid, the song just ended then there was a springing noise and he was there. Though none of this had happened as of yet, she didn't like the prospects and really would have loved to put a stop to it before it happened.
Turning her brown eyes to Drew, she bit her bottom lip slightly. If she remembered correctly, she'd done everything correctly. A swift but careful movement of swishing, the smallest of flicks, and silencio. Maybe she'd messed up on the movements again.
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Post by Drew Thornton on May 19, 2007 1:08:29 GMT -5
Drew frownd slightly, not only at the annoying music, but also over the fact that he really didn't see anything she had done wrong. maybe her flick could have been a little more flicky and she might have said the incantation just a tad later than most, but it shouldn't have been enough to keep the spell from working.
Of course, the fact that it hadn't worked, gave him the perfect opportunity to lead her through the spell. He moved into place directly behind her, taking her wand hand in his and was about to go ahead and cast the spell when he realized it was stuff like this that had gotten him in trouble in the first place.
"You okay like this?" he asked, looking down at her from behind, raising a worried eyebrow. He didn't have any problem being that close to her and hoped she didn't either.
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Post by Felicity Hjort on May 19, 2007 1:21:35 GMT -5
The frown on his face didn't lighten her heart any as he didn't seem to have an answer for her. Of course, she knew he wouldn't have all of the answers when it came to her wandwork, but she liked the thought that he could at least have some sort of solution. And when he moved behind her to take her through it, she couldn't help but let a small, relishing smile take over her lips; and knowing he couldn't see it from standing behind her, she didn't bother with trying to hide it.
"Yes," she answered with the slightest of nods, while trying to get rid of the smile before he thought she was doing it all on purpose, which of course she wasn't.
"Why wouldn't I be all right with it? I did ask for your help after all," she added, hoping it would give a bit more of a professionality to the situation. While she enjoyed having him that close to her, this was business time, not personal time. And any thoughts she was having had to be pushed to the far back of her mind until at least after she'd learned the spell.
"So, work your magic and teach, teach," she teased, tilting her head a little to look at him.
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Post by Drew Thornton on May 19, 2007 1:36:33 GMT -5
"Okay," Drew answered carefully, taking it just one step further and slipping his free arm around her middle. She had given him free reign to do so and besides, being that close, it was really more of a balance issue than anything else. He tried to focus on the annoying little toy, trying hard not to make it obvious that he was enjoying the smell of her hair at the same time.
"A small swish and a quick flick," he said, moving both of their hands in much the same way as she had just seconds before. No, he wasn't positive his teaching technique would help, but it was sure worth the try.
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Post by Felicity Hjort on May 19, 2007 1:52:44 GMT -5
The smile on her face grew even wider when he put his other arm around her, and she couldn't help but sink back into him the slightest bit while her face flushed a little. So, full-out professionality might not work the way she was thinking, because she really was enjoying his proximity to her. Pulling her arm up, she gripped his forearm gently with her hand; if he wanted to use balance as his excuse, she wasn't going to lie, it just felt awkward having her arm hanging there.
Letting him guide her through the movements, she really didn't feel much of a difference from what she had done before. So maybe his flick had more to it, but that was the only real difference she felt. "Swish and flick, small and quick," she mumbled to herself. Sometimes it was easier to remember things in odd order, and the small rhyme could prove to be useful. "Anything else?"
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Post by Drew Thornton on May 19, 2007 10:55:11 GMT -5
Drew tried to think of something, anything that would give him an excuse to hold her like he was, but of course, he couldn't. She had the movements down, she just needed some more practice was all.
"No, I think you got it," he told her with a small smile, reluctantly moving away so that he could rewind the toy and she could try it again on her own.
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Post by Felicity Hjort on May 19, 2007 12:56:26 GMT -5
After he moved back away from her, she felt the nerves in her stomach calm down and she wasn't sure she wanted them to. But like she had told herself before, she needed to learn the spell. Waiting for him to re-set the horrid little toy, she lowered her eyes to the floor to think about the spell, if her eyes weren't on him she was more than likely able to concentrate better.
Having it in her mind, she looked back up at the toy, it was time to make it quiet. Holding out her wand, she followed the movements he had shown her to the best of her ability and recast the spell. The noise didn't stop, but it sounded more threatening. It wasn't louder, but it sounded as though it were growling at them.
Lifting an eyebrow she looked back to him, lips slightly pursed. Obviously she was still doing something wrong.
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Post by Drew Thornton on May 19, 2007 20:37:59 GMT -5
Drew rewound the toy and set it down, stepping back so she could try again. He had expected a number of outcomes, but the growling surprised him and he took a small jump back, laughing nervously at his own silliness. Of course it was just a toy and a small one at that. It couldn't actually do anything to them.
He still wasn't sure what she was doing wrong, since she did it just like he had shown her. He scratched his head, puzzled over what they should try next.
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Post by Felicity Hjort on May 19, 2007 20:59:10 GMT -5
Smiling at him, she couldn't help but laugh a little herself when he jumped back away from the jack-in-the-box. It was kind of funny, but she didn't blame him either. The toy was adorable when it was silent, even though it was just a yellow box with a red handle, at least it wasn't annoying.
Letting random thoughts flow through her mind, she wasn't sure what to do to make it stop and it looked as though Drew had no idea about it either. Rather than play around with her wand, afraid of setting it on fire though she hadn't done something of the sort since the last time he'd helped her, she picked the toy up and played with it for a moment to stop the music. When that had been accomplished, she sat down on the floor with it in hand.
There had to be something that was different, maybe it was the distance? Setting the toy down with the smallest of winds, she took her wand back out and tried it once more. Now, the blond knew it wasn't good form to perform spells from sitting on the floor, but she figured it was worth a shot.
Upon casting the spell, the toy now not only growled, but sped up in noise.
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Post by Drew Thornton on May 19, 2007 21:23:49 GMT -5
He almost stopped her from picking it up, knowing that his fear of it biting was a little silly, and he stood back and watched her try again. She took a spot up on the floor right in front of it, and while sometimes, a closer shot helped, in this case it just seemed to make the toy angrier.
Okay, that was it. Drew knew it was a toy and just a toy and he doubted she had botched the charm badly enough to turn the thing evil, but the noise it made just sounded so sinister to him, like the soundtrack of a haunted carnival funhouse. He pulled his own wand and cast his own Silencio on it, hoping to get it quiet enough so he could at least think straight.
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Post by Felicity Hjort on May 19, 2007 22:41:32 GMT -5
Sighing heavily, she almost wished she'd set the jack-in-the-box on fire; it was more annoying than ever now that she'd played around with it. Of course when it suddenly went silent, she wondered if she'd created some sort of strange round-about way of casting the spell, only to find it was even more far-fetched than she'd originally thought to begin with. Drew had his wand out and pointed in the direction, she hadn't even heard him say anything. Perhaps she'd been too lost in her own thoughts by the time he'd cast the spell.
Looking back at the toy, she nearly jumped out of her skin as the little joker popped out without so much as a creak. Trying to think of something, she absentmindedly began tapping her wand against her other hand, not even thinking about what she was doing, nor seeing the sparse sparks that shot out.
"Any ideas?" she asked quietly, hoping he wouldn't say she was obviously helpless in such a situation.
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