She hadn't expected her shield charm to fail but she had to say of all the spells for it to fail on a horde of conjured snakes was possibly the least concerning for her. She'd handled more venomous ones this morning! Just because her opponent didn't know she was particularly fond of snakes didn't mean the outcome of the round would be any different, especially when said snakes were physically restraining her.

Once freed, Mariana felt inspired to keep to the theme of snakes and tried to curse her opponent's hair into an angry clump of attack snakes reminiscent of Medusa.

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