Alexa squinted as she saw something finally fall from her cloud. She didn't want to get her hopes up...but it was white...and fluttering down like a snowflake would. Without meaning to, the Gryffindor was clinging to the faintest hope that somehow she'd gotten it and this exercise could be over. There were more falling with it too and a grin was slowly formed...but it disappeared before it could get very far. If this was snow, why weren't things cold? Why didn't the temperature drop even a little and why did the one that hit her not send her shivering?

Lex caught what she'd first assumed was a snowflake and crushed it in her hand. No ice at all...."Cotton??" Her eyes rose to the cloud again. That was a cheap shot and she didn't find it in the least bit amusing.

Her patience was running very thin with this thing. There were people all around her getting this and she had to be the one dodging rocks and feeling cotton. Somehow this just didn't seem right to her. "Finite." Just stop. Her dreams were crushed and this exercise had lost all favours with her. Things were never meant to be this complicated in spellwork. Somehow she HAD to get this.

"Stiricidium Nubila!"

Once again the cloud clustered closer together and took on a dark tint. There was a slight change in the temperature under the cloud but before this could be properly registered, it began to fall...things...cold things...what? This wasn't snow, that much she could tell, it was a lot more slushy...almost liquid like but freezing. Was this the progress she'd been hoping for??? Not quite snow BUT ALMOST THERE!!!!