 Which came first, the phoenix or the flame?
So it was okay to have a bent pipe cleaner, then. Brandon made sure all his pipe cleaners were perfect anyway. He set his new wooden poles(which had harmlessly ended up the same color as the pipecleaners) off to the side by the wood, and focused on the buttons. taque. Buttons into nails. Simple flick. In order to understand the spell better, he took detailed notes on it. He also wrote down his first thought about the spell, which was that his sister(and his pen pal, and several other people he knew) would have hated turning interesting buttons into nails, but he didn't mind it. Also he wrote that since the poles he made with palus had been different colors, he wanted to make all of his nails look the same.
First, he practiced the incantation until he was confident with it. He didn't think he needed practice at flicking his wand, but he practiced anyway. Then he tried the spell without a clear visualization. "taque. taque." The button turned into a tiny silver nail, and the next one was giant and purple. He pushed them aside, writing out those results in his notebook. He liked to take notes, or at least he was in the habit of doing it. For his next try, he thought very hard about the nails he wanted. "taque. taque." Then he made a medium brown button and a big green button into identical nails. "Tada." |