 Lovely™ | Captain Hurted | Ariana's Bane | Resident Antagonist | Unparalleled Delight
This. Spell. Was. Completely. Impossible.
Kaiser didn't know how anyone had managed to get it right yet; he'd still not got past nailing the wand movement, let alone actually tried to cast the spell. He was all fingers and thumbs, which was doubly frustrating as he could always count on his digits when he climbed or played guitar (even if he wasn't amazing at playing). This was tiredness, he knew it. If he was operating on all cylinders he'd have managed it by now.
It was perhaps a good thing that he was at the back, because there was a lot of frustrated muttering coming from Kaiser - though it was all in Italian and, as far as he was aware, only Alessandro would have been able to understand him anyway.
Eventually, finally, at last, Kaiser managed to get all the way through the wand movement without dropping his wand or fumbling, but he could only assume that the ten minutes was almost up. As much as he was, at this point, willing to just say 'whatever, let the creatures do their worst, I don't care', he thought he might as well try and get the spell successfully cast.
Once more, he tried the wand movement, this time throwing in the incantation and the intent. "Loricatus."
Honestly? He hadn't been expecting it to work; his frustration was so much so that focusing on intent was really quite difficult, he half expected to drop his wand yet again, and he had never yet successfully cast a spell first time, at least that he could remember. So Kaiser was surprised when he felt that tightening around his skin, exactly like wearing too-small clothes (and oh, he knew very well what that was like). Slightly amazed, Kaiser prodded at his arm to see what it felt like from the outside, then looked up when he became aware of a familiar voice from up at the front.
... Interesting, no? And, you know, probably a little insulting, if you didn't have very thick skin. Kaiser watched with not-even-remotely-veiled interest, peering through the gaps between heads, to see how this interaction would go. Would de Nostredame give in and move them along, or would he diffuse Desmarais' distress? If the latter happened, Kaiser was mentally taking notes.
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