 Charms Homework #2 - Post #2 be curious, not judgmental
Continuing on down the corridor from the bronze (AND BLUE) knocker, Sophie hummed to herself, pointing her vine wand at the wall to her right as she went. "Colovaria! Colovaria! Colovaria!" she cast at the stretch of wall, turning various sections and pillars of the wall blue as she went. It actually looked pretty sloppy and less well thought-out than she'd intended, but in reality she hadn't thought it out well at all. She was just picking random stones on the wall and random sections to change blue, sufficiently leaving her mark on this stretch of the seventh floor corridor.
Just before she reached the staircase, she turned back to admire her work - and that's when she realized just how stupid it did look. There was no rhyme or reason to what she'd turned blue along the way, and... sigh. Quiggles would think she was lazy and sloppy and had no artistic vision. He'd be disappointed in this corridor, wouldn't he? He'd think she hadn't even tried at all.
She didn't want that.
A bit grumpily, Sophie turned and started her trek back toward the knocker, and when she crossed any stretch of wall that had a part changed blue on the left side, she changed the part of the wall on the opposite side of the corridor so the blue was symmetrical the whole way down. It took a bit of concentration and hesitation along the way to figure out which stone lined up with the one across from it, but each time she cast, "Colovaria!" again with a point of her wand alllllllll the way back to the knocker until everything that COULD match up looked the same on both sides.
Once she reached the knocker, she jogged back down the corridor once more toward the staircase, looking back and forth between the wall on either side of her as she went to make sure the two sides matched up, then let out a sigh of annoyance with herself when she finally reached the staircase.
She'd made that a lot harder on herself than it needed to be.
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