Oh, okay...well, apparently she was supposed to actually cast the spell during the practice time. Oops. She hadn't, but that didn't matter now, because the professor was starting a game! Maddie loved playing games during class! She fidgeted in excitement as the numbers were rattled off. She ended up being a TWO, which she was excited about, because the two's were pink. Also because Derf was a cutie, and he was the first called out to be a number two, which made him the captain, right?

That was Maddie's logic.

She bee-lined to the right side of the room, while the professor continued to give the directions. She didn't exactly understand what she was supposed to do, so she kind of hovered on the right side of the room while she waited for somebody else to make a move. Emmalyn didn't seem to know what she was doing either, though, so at least Maddie was in good company. She watched the girl cast the spell. "It might be that flick you're doing," she said. "You just move it back and forth like a ribbon fluttering. No flicking at all."

"Fluctus Lux!" Maddie said, and she waved her wand in just the way she'd told Emmalyn to. Wonder of all wonders, for the first time since they'd been taught the spell, Maddie actually succeeded. "I...I did it!" Now...about the rules of that game...