Ariella arrived at the start of the pathways, ready to get some of her DADA project finished. She was way behind already due to other important schoolwork, so she needed to get started. There were several students playing around with snowballs. She took out her piece of parchment which had all the instructions written down in pink ink. She read step one to herself again.
1. Run 8 km (5 miles)
She took a deep breath. Ariella was not an good runner. She preferred brooms over feet any day, but she needed to get her assignment underway. Glad I dressed appropriately, she thought to herself. The pathways were covered in a thin sheet of ice. Not good for a clumsy girl like Ariella. "Diffindo!" she shouted, using the severing spell she remembered reading about. The ice shattered and disappeared at once. She smiled to herself. Now to get running.....
She started off slowly jogging. And then, she picked it up a little."Hmm...not as hard as I thought!" Ariella said quietly. Her long, blonde hair was bouncing everywhere, and she enjoyed the feeling of the wind in her face. It was quite similar to Quidditch. She could feel her heart beating rapidly. A small white cloud floated right above her head, which was counting the kilometers.
Before she even knew it, she was back at the start of the pathways, her little cloud exactly at 8 km. Mission accomplished, she thought to herself as she used 'diffindo' to shatter the counting cloud. She took one final breath of the crisp winter air and went to jog back into the castle. |