Maaaaaybe she should spend some more time on saying the incantation, but she decided to move on to the wand movement now. It was three circles. It really couldn't be that hard. Of course she had thought that before too, and come to find out those little flicks or circles are very important indeed. Even if she managed to get the incantation out perfectly, bad wand work would equal no results. No results equaled a not so happy first year. AJ didn't even have any chocolate on her so there would be absolutely no chance of cheering her up.

Circles. She needed to make circles. The lion swirled her wand around three times, and then noticed that she was doing it the WRONG way. Who could mess up circles? Apparently AJ Valentine could. SEE, this was the exact thought process that she just went through. She had gotten cocky, and went to wrong direction. Imagine if that would have been while she was actually doing the spell. Thoughts of a forest fire came back to her mind. She eyed Bentley. If only the woman knew what was going on in her little eleven year old head. The moral of the story is that you were NEVER big enough to not practice circles. Remember that kids!

This time AJ practiced the three small circles going counter clockwise. She could follow directions. The brunette did it three more times for good measure... she was only thinking of the trees. Here's to hoping that she would be able to put the circles and super long word together and make something happen. She noticed Angel out of the corner of her eye and was amazed that she was already done, and that she didn't even have any trouble. What was this world?