Ella had been playing around with the stones on her desk, doing her best to familiarize herself with them. She quite liked the assortment she had chosen so she felt good about using these particular stones in her reading. Once the Professor was all set up for her demonstration, Ella stopped playing around and focused, taking down some notes as well.

When it was her turn, Ella used the string to set up her field, doing her best to make it big enough. Then, the second year closer her eyes and attempted to clear her mind. She wasn't exactly sure about this inner eye business but if she could get in touch with hers, closing her eyes would be the way, yeah? ...She didn't have to like-chant or anything, right? The little blonde decided against it. That might be going a bit overboard. After concentrating for a few more minutes, the second year felt ready to drop her stones. She did so carefully, but with enough force so that they didn't all land in the same spot. Hopefully she had done so correctly.

The scene in front of her now looked a little like this:


Now to figure out what it all meant.