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Originally Posted by
lemon 
Thanks to Mo's boost, Alice was launched up at that little patch of slowmovers. YES. Yes, those. Right there. The blue ones that were floating around in a little circle, yes, one of those was hers. As she went careening into the wall, she managed to turn a little and push herself off of it with her arms, sending herself drifting towards the meteors. Now what? How exactly was she supposed to catch another one of these in one glove?!
Without bruising her hands, of course. Because she needed those, on acount of she was a Beater. Did Flamsteed really expect her to use a bat if her hand was all purple? No. No, thank you. Alice was just resourceful enough to think up a way to catch it in the same one.
After flaling around the circle of meteors for a little while, the only thing the fourth year had accomplished was successfully breaking them up and sending one of the stars shooting off into someplace else. Obviously, she needed a new approach. Choosing one of the last two blues, she herded it into the wall, using her body to block it's means of escape. It hit her a couple of times-- and it HURT-- but it was nothing that gear couldn't handle, yeah? A few bruises weren't too bad.
The meteor had lost. HA. It was cornered now, and it was hers. Alice, hanging on to a protruding bit of the wall to keep herself from drifting away, carefully pressed her arm, the one laden with gear, against it. She managed to hold it there, even if she could tell it was bruising her a little. PSHHT. Bruises. She was tougher than that. Even more slowly than before, she slipped her gloved hand between the star and her arm. Now.. just to get it to fit with the yellow one..
YES! SUCCESS! Now.. had Cactus caught his, too?
She didn't know.. but SHE had.
And.. WHY WAS THERE A FOOT IN HER FACE? "Oakey Richard Gunter.. I swear.. if you don't get your foot out of my facemask in the next three seconds.." He would be returning to his common room missing a limb. Because he had almostvmade her drop her STAR. Not cool.
It was kinda lucky that Alice had gotten all combative with the blue meteors, knocking one of them in entirely the wrong direction. But it was the
right direction for Mo, and he handily reached out and grabbed the blue stone as it meandered past.
What? Like it was hard?
The timing was good, too, because it saved him having to get belligerent with the boy who was harassing Her Royal Highness, and it meant that Mo had two colored stones in his hands as the professor brought them back to the floor with the restoration of gravity. Mo gave the bossy boy a very grave look before turning his attention to his two stones.
Just tap them on top and they turned into boxes, right? But boxes he wasn't allowed to open, which was... a LOT of pressure for this particularly curious little Ravenclaw. He tapped the boxes and then immediately shoved them both deep into his pockets, giving him an oddly bulgy look.
Now he could go and enjoy the day and try NOT to think about opening those boxes. Except... not really. Now he could go and take a beating from the grumpy Astronomy professor. Too bad the guy hadn't had a run in with the wall a bit harder. It was hard to get yelled at by someone when they were unconscious.