Closed Of course it's you

[Elio Boneheart]

Just practice.

That's always what anyone said whenever he expressed his displeasure with not getting something quicker. Keep practicing until you get it. There were never any tips on how to get it, because apparently that wasn't going to help him. This was something he could only do on his own which was a bit bullsh!t if he did say so himself. He didn't see how constantly trying to make something happen when it wasn't going to happen was going to help, and even after he'd tried to get his wand to light up, which he'd barely managed thanks very much, he still couldn't do much of anything else. He felt like he was still on the basics when he should have been on other things, more advanced. Sure he could conjure a bunch of flowers for Mikael, or throw up a shield, but doing anything wordlessly or wandlessly? Or both? Nope, impossible. Nothing he tried was helping, is this what happened when the majority of your education was out of a textbook? It wasn't that his mother didn't try to help him, but she was hardly a professor and he always felt like maybe she was pushing him to do the things she never got to - like be a healer, which he'd already decided wasn't for him and he still didn't know how he was going to tell her that. She'd been pushing him to go and speak to the Nursing staff and ask them if he could train with them, but so far hadn't been in there to ask. He didn't know how to tell her that he wasn't going to either - but he supposed he would have to at some point. After another failed attempt to do anything wordlessly, he slumps onto the couch he'd summoned, he had no idea where it had come from and he hoped no one was missing it, but right now he needed to sit down, he was tired, he was annoyed and frankly he wanted to be left alone... in the middle of the duelling chamber. Ah hell. He didn't even care anymore.​

 

[Mikael Nightray]

There had been something off with Mikael's boyfriend in the last few days. With most students, he would chalk it up to pre-exam jitters, but Elio wasn't really prone to that in Kael's expert opinion. What his boyfriend was prone to was semester-long jitters. Anxiety about his studies all semester round. And not just his own studies too, sometimes Elio was also prone to being anxious about Mikael's studies. And Hinata's on occasion. So yes, with his boyfriend being more or less down, the Slytherin had gone in search of him. Thankfully, one had directed him (after a bit of bribery) in the direction of the Duelling Chamber, where his boyfriend was last seen attempting to practice spells alone apparently. Which was a little counterproductive, in his opinion, and weird, considering he'd been hounding Mikael into practicing casting spells for his OWLs. As soon as he entered one of the chambers, he caught sight of his Gryffindor boyfriend slumped on a couch, which made him frown. Taking out his wand, he softly casts a very very mild stinging hex on his boyfriend as he walks up to him. "That seems very counterintuitive to practicing," he says as he stands in front of his boyfriend, his wand held relaxed against his side, "Come on. Wand up."​

 

[Elio Boneheart]

"Of course," look, it's not that Elio didn't want Mikael around, but when he was trying to practice non-verbal magic it made it hard to do it when he had an audience, not to mention Mikael hadn't learned it yet so he was hardly the person who was going to have the information that Elio needed right now. He jumped up immediately though when Mikael hexed him and he turned his already sullen face in his direction, not even bothering to retaliate, his leg (where the spell had hit him) now sporting an angry red welt. "That was so unnecessary," he said, before rolling his eyes. "What are you doing here anyway, shouldn't you be studying or something? I'm trying to... uhm," well he couldn't say he was studying or anything because Mikael had walked in at exactly the wrong time to believe that. "You shouldn't throw spells at people, even if we're in the duelling chamber, I wasn't ready."​

 

[Mikael Nightray]

Mikael raised an eyebrow at the complaint. Well, perhaps he would soothe the injured area later with some ice. Maybe. Depending on how this went. "Well, I may or may not have heard that it's my turn to pester about your studies now," he says. Well, he didn't really hear, but it was more like guessing. He'd already helped Elio study for theory when they had that picnic by the lake. There wasn't much he could help with, though, when it came to conjuration or apparition, seeing as he wasn't allowed to perform either until next year, and by then, Elio would have been done. Nonverbal casting, though, that he could help with. He knew the theory. And well, there wasn't really much that needed to be known about it. Mastery of spells, focus, and practice from what he understood. There were still gaps in his own knowledge, gaps that would have likely been filled by Elio's education this year. It was likely all Elio needed was a bit of a push and a lot of practice. Thankfully, Mikael can be quite pushy, and he was a willing duelling partner even if he could only cast verbally. "Hmm. Well, you're ready now. Stupefy," he casts without further warning. He did tell Elio to put his wand up earlier.​