The feeble tugging was put to an end once Alexa cast a finite to get back to the old drawing board. That last attempt had been something, it really had. Better than the one before and better than not working at all. She just had to work at improving whatever she did just now. Was it possible to be more focused than she already was? Probably not but she could try. This was brilliant exercise for her attention span, truly...and she didn't fancy doing this again any time soon unless the results were painful to the target.

Lex settled before one of the dummies. It was like she could already see the rope tugging the dummy over to her. Was power what it needed? She got the rope to execute, maybe it was the extra oomph that it needed...like with bambarda as she'd come to learn.

Another try then.

Intent with the unspoken incantation. Focus on the outcome....Lex did the whip cracking once more, hearing the incantation clearly in her mind in line with the actions of her wand.

The purple light of rope burst from her wand as it had before but this time when it gripped the dummy it TUGGED and tuuuuuggggeed and and and dummy coming at her!!