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Braeden chuckled softly when Ava Jade dared him to go first. Alllrighttt... He could do that. And he did, taking very slow, cautious steps toward the tentacle that now lay on the marble floors of the school, feeling the texture of the floor curiously at a slow speed. Braeden pulled out his wand and held it tight in his hand as he approached the creature, standing now only about a foot away from the slimy thing. It reminded him of the Giant Squid... Oh Merlin, what if it was the Giant Squid?! And it had... magically transported itself here?!
Braeden's face seemed to go pale at the thought - he'd been dragged under the water by that foul creature once before - but he soon snapped back to his senses. This couldn't be the Giant Squid. It was big and weird, but it wasn't giant.
"Alright, I led the way," started Braeden, eyeing the thing warily. "Now you touch it," he challenged Ava Jade, turning to the girl and flashing her another of his goofy grins, with a hint of mischief in it. Oh Merlin, if that thing decided to reach out and grab them... well... That was it for them.
"Ohh, that's very brave of you," Ava Jade teased, still not daring to take her eyes off the slimy tentacle wriggling on the floor. She swallowed, rotating her wand once in her hand, then edged closer...then a little closer...then a little closer..........
The tentacle flopped over and Ava Jade jumped back, shrieking. "Expelliarmus!" she yelled, and her spell soared right above the creature and hit the muck of the swamp, which only jiggled as the incantation disappeared in its slime. Her cheeks turning a bit red, Ava Jade pursed her lips in frustration as the tentacle flopped on the ground, looking annoyingly harmless after her outburst. "I thought it was going to attack me," she said, laughing shakily.
Now time to follow through on Braeden's dare. Gripping her wand like death, Ava Jade bent down to the flopping tentacle and stretched out her first finger...and touched it. At the sensation of its cold, wet, slimy skin, she leapt back and let out a strange sound of disgust (which came out something like "EWWWICKKKK!") and wiped her hand on her robe furiously. The tentacle flinched and flopped around, covering a span of about a foot, but if anything it flinched away from her instead of toward her, which would have been a relief if she hadn't been ferociously rubbing the slime off her finger. "That's disgusting! Your turn. Now you touch it," she insisted. "Merlin, what do you suppose it is?"