Rock Skipping [o p e n ]

[lykeomg]

Sploosh!

“Arg…” No matter how hard Ana tried to make her rock skip across the water, it just wouldn’t. It felt like the rock hated her, but then again its not like it didn’t have a reason to. When someone keeps throwing you into the water over and over without your permission it does tend to get a little annoying after a while. But even if the rock did hate her, she wasn’t going to let that stop her from succeeding in rock skipping.

She picked up a rock and she tossed it at the water. All it did was plop in. Was there some sort of special technique that she needed to know how to do? If her brother was around, he’d be able to show her how to do it, but he wasn’t. Just then she had remembered something her brother told her a while ago about skipping rocks. He had told her that she had to find a flat and smooth rock, and then when she was about to throw it she had to hold it with the flat side down; but that was all she could remember. She didn’t remember if there were any other steps. So she picked up the rock and threw it as hard as she could. Skip. Skip. Plop.

Her eyes flew open in surprise and a huge grin appeared on her lips, followed by a giggle. “Ah! Oh my gosh. It skipped, it actually skipped!” However, just as she was getting really excited, someone from behind her threw a rock and it skipped about five times. Her eyes grew even larger that before and her head quickly turned around to see who threw the rock.

“Whoa, you’re really good! Do you think you could teach me some of you’re amazing rock throwing skills of amazingness?”

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[Indrick Mal'Ghanis]

Time was a horrible thing. Or losing it was, anyways. Indrick Mal'Ghanis now knew this firsthand. The funny thing was, he didn't react to realizing what had happened since he'd last seen the school the way he normally reacted to adversity. No, normally Indrick Mal'Ghanis would go to the library or Room of Requirement and wait it out.

This time, however, Indrick had simply donned his black cloak and Ravenclaw uniform, walked out of his common room, and walked down to the lake to skip rocks. He barely even noticed that other people were doing the same thing until somebody else noticed that his stone had skipped rather well. Wha? Oh, I'm not alone, he thought to himself.

"Oh! Uhm, sure. You need to get a flat stone and throw it in a flat plane like a frisbee. Like this," he said, lifting a carefully chosen stone, aiming it, and flinging it like he would toss a frisbee. The rock jumped four times before falling into the water. "Some stones are better than others, some throws are better than others."

"Here, let me get you a good flat one," he said, carefully searching out an optimal stone for the toss. After he found one, he lifted it and offered it to Anastasia. "This one should work well. Here you go, Miss..." he said, clearly expressing a desire for her name. For the moment, he'd forgotten all about his current woes. Perhaps that was why he'd come down here to toss stones.