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Codex sat outside, for safety's sake. She was learning a new spell. So, yeah, safety was needed.

According to the books she'd read, the spell was supposed to make a bunch of birds fly out of her wand. Which was kind of useless, but pretty cool. She wondered what kind of birds they'd be. Something cute and harmless, she hoped. Like sparrows. Or parakeets.

"Avis," she said, waving the wand like she'd read she was supposed to. Or she thought she'd said "Avis." She'd had a cold recently and her nose was still a little stuffed up, and--

"Oh god! Bees!" she squawked as a swarm of buzzing horrors were let loose from her wand instead of harmless birds. "Not the bees! Not--Incendio!"

Oh, the beemanity! It was a really good thing she was good at that fire spell thingy now, because she didn't think she was up for running all zig-zag-y to the lake and jumping in. With the squid. Ugh. Squid.

She panted, wide-eyed in shock, and eyed the crisped cinders of the dead bees at her feet. "So... maybe that could have gone better."