Merlin forbid she ever experience this kind of agony again, because her knee. Alice made a couple of pitiful faces at nothing in particular, and then silently cursed more sons of garden gnomes when she dropped her wand. How... how was she meant to bend over again and.... reach.... stretch.....

Yes! Wand. And all it cost her was a cracking back and more pain in her leg. Lovely.

This spell was rather dumb, she decided. All it encouraged was running away and being a coward, so Alice wasn't putting too much effort into it anyway. But she was attempting to distract herself from her knee pain with practicing the movement for the spell, putting as much effort into the sideways candy cane as she could muster. Twist and a horizontal flick. Twist and a horizontal flick.