 1... ish Lovely™ | Captain Hurted | Ariana's Bane | Resident Antagonist | Unparalleled Delight
Daxton blinked. Was class over already? For a moment he thought it might be, despite the fact that hardly enough time had passed to truly consider it a full lesson, but it soon transpired that, actually, they were moving on to a practical portion. Which required wands.
Right.
Though he was incredibly uncertain about this, Daxton put his many pages of notes back into his bag, slotting them inside of his notebook so they would not get creased and untidy, then pushed it all back down to the ground with his desk and chair.
Floating in midair and trying as hard as he could to stay upright, Daxton grabbed the drawstring bag when it was levitated to him and wasted no time in peering inside. From within, Daxton pulled a blue marble and inspected it closely, glancing up at Airey Flamsteed once or twice as the instructions for the activity were explained.
He was very unsure about this. Not because he was sure he would not be able to cast the spell - though that was true, too - but because with everyone floating around the room... the chances of someone crashing into him were high.
Higher than normal, anyway. People tended to do that anyway in this place, gravity or no gravity.
Daxton had no time to voice his concerns - for lack of a better term - however, because the activity was very quickly underway. Grasping the one marble in his fist and hanging the drawstring bag that held the others off of his arm, Daxton made a quick attempt to scramble through the air and away from the general throng of students and those big planets, way off to the very edge of the room where he could remain out of the way and take his time learning this spell (if he could manage it at all) in relative peace (though that was seeming less and less likely, with all the awful shouting that was going on in here; if Daxton were on solid ground, he would seriously be considering just leaving right now).
It took him well over a minute to get there, but he made it. Daxton tried for a few moments to right himself and face the class again, then inspected the marble once more.
So, he just had to... hold the marble over the tip of his wand - easy enough, like he was about to try and do some sort of balancing act with the two, which actually would likely work in this floating situation - and...
'Tikalas.'
Daxton did not say the spell, but he thought it, concentrating hard on trying to get it to work. He pulled it back in time with the last syllable, but when he released the marble, it remained floating exactly where it was. No gold band or anything of the sort.
Which was, in fact, entirely what Daxton had been expecting. He plucked it from the air again, and glanced around at the others in the class, hoping nobody was about to take it upon themselves and try to help him or something. Because it was fine. He had this.
And if he did not, then he would simply resort to manually flicking or throwing the marbles at loud people.
...
At... the planets. Yes. That.
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