She really doesn’t care about failing. This was such utter bullshit that she considers, again, just up and leaving. This wasn’t training. This was a damn spectator sport for Zariah and nothing more. It’s a shame her desire to stronger magic outweighs her current level of anger, because she doesn’t leave.
Seething, Weaver does what she usually does when she’s pissed, which is to say, she does something stupid.
Grabbing more tinder and lighting it, lantern still in one hand, Weaver moves toward the side of the ursur, chucking the pieces of tinder at it’s fur. She uses her magic to coax any flames that hit the ursur’s side to catch. Why? So it would look to one side and be concerned with the flames in it’s fur and not the girl sneaking up on it’s other side. Yes, she is purposefully pissing off an ursur now but there are two other people tasked with killing it. It has bigger fish to fry than her.
Honestly she probably doesn’t need fire at all at this point, given that the thing is trying to eat Loren, but she assumes Zariah will disqualify her for not trying. Also ridiculous. Everything was a weapon and you didn’t always need magic. She just needed someone to teach her how to use magic; not how to play chicken with a monster. Also ridiculous that she can’t help Loren, and honestly if Loren looks like he’s about to die she might disqualify herself and help away.
She doesn’t spend long trying to light the creature on fire, but what she thinks will be just long enough to accomplish her task. Then she darts around to the other side, keeping close to the ursur, hoping it’s busy, and moves in closer than she has before. Close enough she actually could jump on its back (a current possible escape route from its tusks, to be honest), fingers digging into the fur at its neck and grabbing for the bell again. She stays longer than before, only darting away if absolutely necessary. Maybe someone would kill it the second after she got her bell. That’d be fine.
***
Weaver tries to light little fires on one side of the ursur and then darts around to the other side, moving in super close to the ursur and trying to grab the bell. She only darts away if necessary and considers jumping on its back if she really has to to get out of the way of a tusk.
Seething, Weaver does what she usually does when she’s pissed, which is to say, she does something stupid.
Grabbing more tinder and lighting it, lantern still in one hand, Weaver moves toward the side of the ursur, chucking the pieces of tinder at it’s fur. She uses her magic to coax any flames that hit the ursur’s side to catch. Why? So it would look to one side and be concerned with the flames in it’s fur and not the girl sneaking up on it’s other side. Yes, she is purposefully pissing off an ursur now but there are two other people tasked with killing it. It has bigger fish to fry than her.
Honestly she probably doesn’t need fire at all at this point, given that the thing is trying to eat Loren, but she assumes Zariah will disqualify her for not trying. Also ridiculous. Everything was a weapon and you didn’t always need magic. She just needed someone to teach her how to use magic; not how to play chicken with a monster. Also ridiculous that she can’t help Loren, and honestly if Loren looks like he’s about to die she might disqualify herself and help away.
She doesn’t spend long trying to light the creature on fire, but what she thinks will be just long enough to accomplish her task. Then she darts around to the other side, keeping close to the ursur, hoping it’s busy, and moves in closer than she has before. Close enough she actually could jump on its back (a current possible escape route from its tusks, to be honest), fingers digging into the fur at its neck and grabbing for the bell again. She stays longer than before, only darting away if absolutely necessary. Maybe someone would kill it the second after she got her bell. That’d be fine.
***
Weaver tries to light little fires on one side of the ursur and then darts around to the other side, moving in super close to the ursur and trying to grab the bell. She only darts away if necessary and considers jumping on its back if she really has to to get out of the way of a tusk.
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