SPOILER!!: Cassiaaaa
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Originally Posted by
the fastest seeker 
Lex seemed to have found out about that part of the challenge, too! The gryffindor hadn't yet found a firstie to lift yet, though. Probably because she was too busy picking up her pace until she was right next to Cassia. How did she do THAT? Hmm... She even had extra planks. IT was possible that the snakette wasn't as daring as the lioness.
Aaaand two planks of wood unloaded.
The blond shook out her arms while turning around and starting again towards the new pile. Ooh, right, "Yup!" she turned her head back answering Lex's question. Nope, wasn't cheating. Alexa would catch up with her in no time, anyway. Especially with no load.
Jogging towards the pile, she cast a look around, maybe she could just scoop a firstie up without further ado. That, though, might cause some screaming on the firstie's part. She wasn't fan of that. "All firsties are taken I see," she said to Lex, her breathing becoming a bit harder.
We SAW that Cassia Somerlad! Wait on a girl for like two seconds because she happens to be your bestfriend and she darts off without you. Truly a snake moment right there and Lex was too proud to be offended. Cassia was entertaining when she had her snake moments, definitely so instead Lex jogged after her, deciding there was no rush because Cassia still needed to reload.
Back on the next side she scowled thoughtfully at what Cassia said.
"No kidding. All of 'em?" She asked, scanning the area. She didn't really care whether they were firsties or not, so long as they were short enough to be dangled from planks without their feet scraping against the floor. Think how painful that could be for someone!
"Has to be more." She said while she lifted another set of planks horizontally in line with her shoulders. This time only three since she'd had a potential little person to contend with.
SPOILER!!: Leah
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Originally Posted by
nanyjj
"Yeah, not so hard." Leah said conversationally. "Leah Abbott." she said. Yep, that was her name. The older girl did not mention her name but the second year could tell that she was the Gryffindor prefect.. Alexa? She did not care much anyway.
After putting down the four planks, Leah could kind of feel the potion wearing off a bit. "I'd love to have a sword fight with you, AJ, but I don't know, is there a race going on right now?" she said, grinning, looking around. Yess.. older people carrying firsties on planks and racing. Looking fun! She wanted to carry a firstie too.
Running over to the starting line (?), she realized that she was MUCH smaller than the other runners. Therefore, it was much suitable for her to be carried. Someone needed a little person! Looking up at the tall girl, Leah asked, "Do you think you can carry me?" She wasn't a first year after all, but she was small for her age.
Ah see! The Puffer that said she was Leah, she could be her little carrying buddy and Lex grinned at her question.
"Pfft, 'course I can. Don't reckon you're that heavy to begin with. These planks are nothing."
She swung one end toward the girl.
"Grab on and we can get this race started." She had FOUND someone. Not a Firstie, no, but she was small enough anyway and with the help of the potion she'd be light enough too. This was going to be cake, so much cake that the Gryffindor was tempted to find an even bigger challenge...like...could she carry TWO.
That would require finding another little person though and they seemed so scarce.
SPOILER!!: Dima
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Originally Posted by
lemon He was LATE. Again.
Either Aunt Cela's map was very, very wrong, or Dima was very, very bad at reading it.
When he arrived at the construction site, it looked like a lot was done already. Did they even need his help? The first year couldn't do much anyway, as he once more refused to take the potion. It was nice of Culloden to make a batch without the dragon heart, but the animal blood had no replacement.
Dima's conscience said no.
Still, he did his best to assist with the plank carrying, attempting to lift them WITHOUT said added strength. And failed miserably, of course. He had to settle for dragging the wooden planks where their placement was needed instead. At least he was a GOOD dragger, yeah?
Except not that scarce when you considered Dima struggling with the planks over there. He didn't drink the potion again. Sigh. When was he going to get over that? Hopefully before he hurt himself. Would that have been too much to ask.
She spotted Ethan trying to recruit him but that would go against her two kid strategy of looking more impressive.
"Hey Dima, wanna grab on to the other end of this and lemme dangle you to the finish line?" Yes, her, not Cassia who was being flocked by little people. Just saying.