Merlin’s beard! So they were starting the game. EEP! Ella was quite nervous, mostly cause points were at stake and she knew how tight the race for the house cup was at the moment. She got her wand out and ready and focused on her teammates, some who were already in line to head into the water. Before she knew it, they were going. Okay. Time to focus. "Come on team one! You can do it!" She cheered, hoping to win.

When she was tagged, the second year raced forward and pointed her wand at the toothpick, eyes narrowed in concentration. She blanked for a terrifying moment, blinking several times in panic. NOOO! She knew this! She totally knew this. Shaking her head in frustration, the incantation finally came to her. Right. She could do this! She pointed at the stick thinga-majigger and made the full circle motion. "Vergrand-IS Nav-IS!"

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It worked! IT WORKED! Inner Flailing Time! Though she didn’t have time to waste and within seconds was in the circular boat and in the water, paddle in hand.

Getting to the pole with the ribbons was like…horrible. Ella was small, like really small for a second year and that meant she had ZERO muscles. Okay, not true exactly. Swinging around the beater’s bat had helped slightly but still, paddling was exhausting work. Plus the boat was extremely hard to steer! How did people ride these things around all the time! It was crazy. Tongue poking out, she concentrated as she got closer and closer to the ribbons. She was definitely going to get one!

When she did finally get to the pole, she eye balled that there were six ribbons left. BUT NOT FOR LONGGG! Ella carefully…like REALLY carefully reached up, fingertips JUST touching the ribbon closest to her boat. She bit her lip, hoping against hope that she didn’t fall into the water, and reached higher. Just. A. Bit. More. And…

"Gotcha!" She cried triumphantly, placing the ribbon in her lap. Ugh. But now she had to paddle ALL the way back to the land. Mehhh. Okay, back to beast mode!

Once she did get back, Ella climbed out of the Coracle more like fell out and ran towards the next teammate. "Go!" She called cheerfully before collapsing on to the ground. And she still had a lap left to do! SHEESH.