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The silence is awkward. Glad that Louisa manages to break it without making it look ridiculous. Now that they are going to build the wagon, Xing pulls out his wand from the uncomfortable shirt before he drops on his knees to hold the other side of the wood. He looks confused when Louisa speed-explains, but understands what she says when she breaks it down to three words. The simpler, the better. Xing nods, "Alright," and thus, he takes one of the wheels, holds it against the side of the wood.
Wand pointed towards the wheel, the Slytherin swishes the twelve inches long Poplar wood. He looks focused as he swishes his wand and performs the incantation. "Adhero..." the word escapes in a low, slightly husky and confident voice. Wheels, done. "What's next?" Xing suddenly asks, looking up at Louisa.
Louisa moved the second wheel to the other edge of the wood plank and waved her wand at it, "
Adhero.." Her hands were covered in dirt and splints now but she didn't really mind that as much as minding this ridiculous outfit that continued to get in her way of holding the wooden 'floor' with the wheels attached to it. Zing seemed to be doing a good job of this, though. That was a relief. The girl held her end of the half-wagon and waited for him to finish his job, watching carefully in case he didn't understand an instruction or something.
Smiling at the boy, Louisa got to her feet and dusted off her big skirt. "
Now we put two walls." She pointed at the two square wood pieces that she'd prepared already. "
You do one and I'll do the other." Once the girl let go of the half-wagon, it started moving a bit. Louisa quickly held it in place again. Uh oh. She looked up at Zing alerted, "
Maybe we shouldn't have attached the wheels first." Oopsies. Her inexperience in building stuff showed way too quickly. Oh well, thank Merlin for magic.
With the wand, Louisa brought the square wooden plates over to them. She dragged one of them over the wagon and maneuvered it to a standing position at the edge of the wagon's floor. "
Adhero," she pointed at the base of the wooden piece. "
Your turn." She said while checking that the first 'wall' of their wagon was steady enough by shaking it just a little bit.