Bringing the
two compasses she had managed to transfigure over at the study tables along with her, Kurumi flopped herself down on one of the red velvet chairs and heaved a heavy sign as she slouched down deep in the chair. Who knew that casting spells could be so tiring. Then again, changing an object into something else was not exactly the same as cutting butter with a hot knife. It was more like trying to cut a rock with a spoon...a really dull spoon.
Holding the two compasses in her right hand and the remaining
ice cream sandwich erasers in her left, she looked at them for a long while trying to figure out what to do next. What did her two compasses have in common. Well, they were both gold and...they didn't have a cover! With a new burst of energy, Kurumi sat up in her chair and crossed her legs and set her Transfiguration textbook on her lap to be used as a table. She put the two compasses in her robe's pocket along with the remaining erasers, minus one, and set one eraser on her textbook.
Okay, so same type of compass but this time let's add a cover, she said to herself as a sort of pathetic pep-talk.
Once again taking out her wand, Kurumi traced a cross in the air, jabbed the center, and repeated the enchantment.
Please no exploding eraser this time...or melting for that matter. The eraser began to glow again, but this time it didn't appear like it was going to melt but it did have the possibility of exploding. It now looked like a piece of bubblegum being blown into with hot air. The bubble was no about the size of a baseball and Kurumi pressed her lips together as she began to squint and cringe in fear that she was going to have to pick up more eraser bits.
Just as it looked like that was the very thing that was going to happen, the bubble deflated as if someone had poke it with a needle. Well, that was a relief! As the bubble deflated, its shape also changed and morphed into a shiny gold cover. When all the glowing had stopped - hey! no loud popping noise this time! - Kurumi looked down to see another
compass that had a shiny cover to it! Her brain exhausted and little beads of sweat running down her brow, Kurumi figured it was time for a tea break.