Lex perked up significantly at the mention that they'd be moving into some practical work. This would have been child's play for her, given it was something she'd already gotten the hang of i--waaaaait they could try non-verbals? Epic! Lex had been working on those in her free time (what else was there to do, huh?) and even last term, incase she'd need them for her OWLs or something. Granted she hadn't but the practice wasn't wasted, evidently not.

Most of her experience went into hexes, jinxes and curses but surely this couldn't have been much harder. just a little practice. That's all it ever really took.

For the first cast, she'd go verbal, just to get back into the hang of things but after she'd give the non-verbal a shot. Alexa stepped before one of the dummies, at a good enough distance and did the motion of one cracking a whip, like Professor Fuller had taught them, concetration, imagining the rope really will spring forward, "Carpe Retractum!"

If she'd said she was surprized it work, she would only have been lying. It was something she'd done a few times even before hog tying Mo that ones time. It'd have been shocking if she failed but there it was, the purple rope around the dummy that came hurtling toward her after--wait what??? Holy kneazle!

At the last minute she side stepped the dummy. Right. Seize and pull. Had to remember that.