Adi watched as Romanos made the dummies appear. Why were there only four? Did she not expect them to master the spell or did she expect them to play tug of war should multiple persons manage to grab onto the dummy at the same time? Now that latter one sound like an awesome idea.

The third year was sure he had already mastered the spell. Yep! He remembered he had practiced and practiced with Annabeth. So, full of confidence, Adi said, "Carpe Retractum!" Cue the whip like movement. Annnnd a whole lot of nothing happened. Meh. So much for having mastered the spell.