[Time, effort, and sheer determination eventually take their toll on the floor. It's not a very deep groove; it wouldn't be much of a spell if idle scratches and wear and tear could disrupt it so easily. But slowly and surely, through aching muscles and too-tense hands, she's managed just barely to cause a break in the circle, just enough. Or at least, she hopes it's enough; she tries to create a ball of flame to test the theory, and it still manages to suck the magic away, but it's slower this time than it was before. It's not instantaneous; there's a span of about two seconds when it stays lit, before eventually it dissipates.
It also leaves her exhausted, somehow, as though sucking it away had drained the magic straight out of her body instead of just from her spell, but that's a problem for another time. For now, she drops to the ground to rest, aching and tired, and waits.
She waits so long that she's genuinely almost convinced that there's nothing. That she was wrong in her hunch, that they're trying something different when it comes to locating her.
But then she senses just the barest taste of a familiar magic that isn't her own, so thin it almost isn't there, and the instant she does her eyes go wide and she grasps for it, yanking so hard that the weakened, fragile spell seems to snap before being devoured by the circle.
And yet, there was a pull. Maybe, just maybe, that's enough.]
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It also leaves her exhausted, somehow, as though sucking it away had drained the magic straight out of her body instead of just from her spell, but that's a problem for another time. For now, she drops to the ground to rest, aching and tired, and waits.
She waits so long that she's genuinely almost convinced that there's nothing. That she was wrong in her hunch, that they're trying something different when it comes to locating her.
But then she senses just the barest taste of a familiar magic that isn't her own, so thin it almost isn't there, and the instant she does her eyes go wide and she grasps for it, yanking so hard that the weakened, fragile spell seems to snap before being devoured by the circle.
And yet, there was a pull. Maybe, just maybe, that's enough.]