"You know, that attitude of yours can get pretty annoying..." Jess muttered quietly as she ground her teeth, "Fine, but don't cry when you lose! The first to three first spell casts wins!" She exclaimed, full of determination, and Eiro just lightly smirked as he stood on the opposite side of the room to her.
"Just start already." Eiro said, and watched as Jess held her staff forward before a line of glowing light appeared in the air in front of her. And without hesitation, Eiro started copying exactly what she was doing, without any delay visible to Krog or James.
Jess was silently moving her lips, a bad habit that many mages had. Even when not making use of chants for a magic circle, very often, they still subconsciously connected the action of casting a spell with audibly chanting it, despite it not being a direct necessity for casting low-tier spells, which Jess and Eiro were restricted to.
