 Which came first, the phoenix or the flame?
Brandon stuck the dowel(handle?) into the sphere, and deftly tied on his ribbons. That was the easy part. This was the hard part. Glacius. He practiced the wand movement, which felt complicated, and repeated the word glacius several times. Even after practicing, it took him a while to cast the spell right and two tries to fully encase it in white. "Glacius. Glacius? Glacius. Glacius. Glacius." There. He looked around to see how other people were doing, and was relieved when he wasn't the last person to finish.
Brandon stood, moving to the side of the room. Were they going to walk in circles? That's where he thought this was going. "Um... I think comets have tails because the sun vaporizes part of the comet and that part trails behind the comet." He hesitated. "Is that the same as what Jude said?" |