The leaf dragon slowed down briefly as it heard the sound of an approaching storm. Gliding back down to the ground, it hesitated a few moments, then raised its leafy wings over its head in a sort of canopy and began running toward the finish line on foot, as if it were eager to be done with this exercise. The drops of rain that started to fall merely dropped of the leaf-like wings and before the storm could get worse, the leaf-dragon was over the line.

It stood there turning in a circle and flicking the water off its wings in an irritated manner, then looked crossly up at Violet, as it it blamed her for the whole thing. Violet clicked the time and recorded the time--not bad, but could have been better if the dragon hadn't wasted so much time in the beginning. Still, it had done a clever job of it, and Violet smiled as she gently lifted it out of the maze in both hands and set it back at her workstation.

Violet had spent a lot of time on the first run, so she hurriedly scooped up the ice-dragon and carried it over to the starting line of the maze. It looked disdainfully up at her and stuck its nose up in the air, not moving an inch.

"Very well, if that's the way you feel," Violet remarked. "Only I'd have thought you wouldn't want to let that leaf-dragon show you up. I'm starting the timer now, by the way." The ice-dragon pricked up its head at that, then, turning forward, started with determination into the maze, sliding along like a skater on an iced-over pond.