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Amur Neverwinter
Fourth Year
Default Post #2 (Flying - final activity & Dot)
~ Rise and Rise Again, Until Lambs become Lions ~

SPOILER!!: Dot :)
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Originally Posted by Cassirin View Post
"If you try something without knowing the outcome, then you might fail. I'm just saying you're willing to fail, and I... don't like to." Not suggesting the girl would fail, just that she didn't care so much whether she did or not. And Dot cared a LOT. "Have fun your way, and I'll have fun my way."

And that left them on good terms, because Dot had made her dragon larger without blowing it up and the girl... Amur, was it? The girl hadn't made fun of her for it and had applaued when she got her spell right.

Speaking of spells gone right, Dot needed to get a move on before the professor lack-of-fibered in her direction again. She put a hand on the neck of her dragon to let him know she was there, and then she scrambled ungraciously onto his back. All elbows and flashes of knee socks. "Good boy, Lazybones. We're going for a little flight, and you need to not drop me off to my death. Please."

She pointed her wand to the sky. "Okay FLY." Nothing. Sigh. Lazy dragon. "Please fly." Dot kicked her heels gamely against the dragon's sides and tried some serious intention. The dragon was supposed to do what she said, right? "Fly fly fly." She kicked again, and Lazybones stirred and extended his wings. GOOD START.


OOoohhh. That made much more sense. And it was rather true. Amur nodded. Her bad, the Slytherin's good. While the girl seemed reserved on the extent to which she would allow herself to have fun, she did seem smart. Amur wondered if the latter was perhaps a better quality to have. At the very least, it was safer.

The end agreement sounded good. They would each pursue their own definition of fun. Reasonable and fair.

Turning her own attention back to her dragon, Amur wrapped her hands around one of its spines and leaned down low on its neck, peering up at the hoops. Rocky Felix was still doing his foot-hopping, his whole body swaying from side to side, his wings extending slightly and then curling back up again. His head was low to the ground, slithering back and forth on his long neck as he too looked up at the sky expectantly. Amur took a moment to get used to the feeling of a moving creature under her, to try and work out balance and how not to fall off.

Hold on tight seemed to be the logical conclusion.

Now, what was the word to get the creature into the air? She went through the possible list again. Up? Mush? Skyward? Tally-ho? No. "Yip-yip!"

With a roar of excitment, Rocky Felix lept into the air, his claws scraping at the ground as he pushed off. To her surprise, he didn't open his wings right away, but snapped them close to his body. That seemed completely backwards. Even though they were shooting into the air at an angle thanks to the power of his muscles, Amur knew what would come next. Falling like the rock that he truly was.

"Open your wings, fool dragon. Open open!"

Too late. They were at the pinnacle of their ascent and Amur could feel the inevitable tug of gravity pulling them back down. To her horror, Rocky banked to the side, putting her side parallel to the ground. Amur wanted to cover her eyes and scream, but she couldn't unwrap her fingers from the spine.

Just as they started into the descent, the creature finally snapped open his wings, catching an updraft of air that carried them up, up and up. Amur's fear rose from her gut, to her mouth and escaped in a breath of awe. She was flying. She was actually flying!!

For a moment, the hoops were forgotten and she simply enjoyed the lazy glide of the dragon as it banked around the hoop course.
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