Because she'd managed to make it slow a little bit, Vesper felt some renewed confidence. It was a good starting place...and with more practice she could make it slow more...and then more...and then MAYBE make it stop. Hopefully...?

She glanced over at the professor and tried not to blush. He was so distressingly attractive. Ugh, all the Claw wanted to do was continue to draw his face...and work on his eyes a bit. She'd gotten the mouth down...but the eyes were another thing entirely. It was decided she'd need to see him head on to get a better idea of their shape and coloring...

.....It was so hard to not look at him. Guh.

Okay...right. The spell. Ves needed to practice the spell more. This time...she'd need to stop her tie from hitting the ground altogether....Not just slow it. All she had to do was focus. It wasn't that hard, right? See the tie. Be the tie. Slow the tie...

STOP THE TIE!

In her mind's eye, Vesper could see the material falling and then her magic plucking it from the air...holding it up and not letting it reach and brush at the floor. It was an artistic approach...Really the only approach she knew that worked for her. Pairing that with some deep breathing exercises so that she didn't get too freaked out or overwhelmed by LURKERS...Her peers in the vicinity...

Weightless. Weightless. Weightless...The tie needed to be weightless...and not effected by that annoying thing called 'gravity'.

Yes, Ves was muttering stop to herself. It would need to STOP.

Cracking an eye open, she retrieved the tie and threw it up, her concentration remaining...She waved her wand, too...because that was the motion and one had to do the motion in order for a spell to work in the first place, right? Right.

"Arresto Momentum."