With a smile and a gentle precise flourish Lucy cast Avis. She had always enjoyed the spell and the small flock of yellow birds it conjured.

  

"This will be your final opportunity to demonstrate your skills," Fitz announced once Mrs. Darrow, Mrs. Crouch, and Mrs. Hutton had departed. Their efforts had been fine, but paled altogether compared to conjured night skies and exquisite bouquets.

"You will produce what you believe to be your finest work," the wizard continued, "in any of the avenues you have showcased your skills today."

Your character has 72 hours to post their final casting, after which the round will be scored. Highest score wins. Please bold your chosen type of spell in your post—charm, transfiguration, illusion, or conjuring.

Angelica Selwyn Ife Gbadamosi Laurel Potts Seraphina Bythesea

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SELWYN 12.5 | CROUCH 4 | GBADAMOSI 9.5 | POTTS 11 | HUTTON 6 | BYTHESEA 7 | DARROW 6

  

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Obviously Ife would be choosing transfiguration for the final round. She turned towards the judges with a dry smile, not especially trying to charm but rather ensuring she had their full attention before she began. When she felt all of their eyes on her she dashed the snowglobe against the stage floor, with such force that her intention could not have been mistaken. Her hands now free her fingers began working quickly, twisting and molding and stretching each piece of broken glass on the stage in turn. A glass frog came to life, hopping towards the edge of the stage and peering at the nearest audience member. A miniature dama gazelle got to its spindly feet and bounded away, sunlight rippling through its clear glass musculature. She continued working her hands furiously, intent on creating a full Kingdom of Benin menagerie. Once she had the shapes and movements right she would move on to scale. She did not intend to stop until her magic failed her, she was declared the winner, or she had crowded the other women off the stage with a life-sized elephant, whichever came first.

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Laurel ignored Mrs. Gademosi as she set about conjuring garlands and bouquets of sunlit, glittering, golden blooms growing from lush greenery. Her intention was to produce as beautiful and varied as her floral displays. A glass gazelle bounded past her and Laurel couldn't help but conjure a wreath of flowers to adorn it's brow, another one on the glass frog's minature head as well, as she continued to create her display. Madame Gademosi should be grateful she didn't have one appear on her brow either, for Laurel was surely tempted.

  

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Mama Potts' is a joy thanks to Bee <3

The floral display was fine — a little on the nose. Did Mrs. Potts have any distinguishing traits beyond liking flowers and raising daughters who didn't know the meaning of propriety?

With a flourish, Ife transfigured the bloom that had appeared by her frog into a glass lilly, to better fit her theme.

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Sera smiled to herself, satisfied — after years of barely using a wand, here she had made it, the final round. Following on her golden cage, Sera moved to begin conjuring colorful, tropical birds — one after another, as the older women here seemed to show no signs of stopping.

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The scene around her became cacophonous. Half of Africa seemed to be at war with every flowering plant in existence and now birds from another continent entirely were filling the air. Angelica's eye-roll alone deserved the judges' attention.

Shutting out the noise and light, Angelica focused on dampening the mood with her conjuration. Angelica focused on the angel and raven she'd conjured to get here. Wand sheathed rounds ago, Angelica's hands began to dance on the whim of her imagination. The angel statuette grew taller, the marble giving way to woodgrain. The folds of her carved gown grew out around her, the bow of a clipper ship slowly emerging from nothing.

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MJ made this miracle!

As Fitzroy had come to expect, the demonstrations from each matron were wonderfully considered and executed. Indeed, the judges took longer deliberating on this final group than they had on any of the larger groups before. At last, the wizard was able to voice their verdict.

"The judges have asked first," Fitz began, "that I commend all for of you. You are exemplars not only in society, but magically as well, each a formidable spellcaster. There can, however," he conceded with an affable grin, "be but one winner—and that is Mrs. Angelica Selwyn! Well done!"

Well done! Angelica Selwyn can take home the shiny new stamp—will PM the coding!

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SELWYN 10.5 | GBADAMOSI 8 | POTTS 9 | BYTHESEA 7

  

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