The boy's hand was outstretched and it cracked at the wrist with a faint and soft popping sound as he turned and wound it. It seemed a fast and accurate, the wand motion portion of the spell did and so he thought it best to limber up his wand hand. He drew out his wand with his left hand and passed it over to his right. Once, Twice, Three times around in a small anti-clockwise motion. He paused and then tried it again considering as he did so that surely the idea to tap into trees for longevity and youth had been thought up before. Maybe someone had even tried it...and failed. But, if they had left notes on their research it wouldn't be hard to access them, study them and see where they had gone wrong and avoid making the same mistake.

One, two, three times around anti-clockwise.