She wasn't here to win (although that would be a very welcome bonus) but to watch everyone show off their skills so that she might steal learn from them. There were two already who she noted down in her mental journal, the quill frantically trying to remember their names. The first guy, was it Sabastian? Ah well, the name is unimportant, had set himself on fire. Oh she definitely wanted to try that! What would happen if she threw him at someone whilst he was like that (because it was perfectly reasonable for a half grown leopard to think she could throw a puma)?

The others were less exciting, that was until she could breathe no more. Her breath caught in her throat and her heart pounded excitedly as she watched a great winged beast, more wondrous than she had ever seen before, bring white flakes of beauty and invisibility. Now he is cool! It was not hard for her to tell that she could not beat that, he was definitely going to be the one taking home whatever the prize was and yet, she felt as if she had already won. Watching these creatures use magic in ways she had never even dreamt about before was better than some measly congratulations.

Then came her. Breathe deep. Slather on that smile. And go!

She was prancing! Shooting out in front of her was a vibrant green wisp, though not as bright or as large as she would have liked it wasn't bad either. The wisp was to announce her presence, lighting the way for her path before it did an arc in the air and came to settle back by her, resting under her chin to light up her face. "Hello! I am Akaari, the Potent! You may have heard of me, I like secrets and knowledge!" As she spoke the girl pranced in a circle, legs high and head held up, the wisp a constant glow under her chin.

Her most practiced magic was useless here, the one she enjoyed the most because it let her know so much! Probably more than she was actually supposed to know but try and stop her. The thing is she could go up to something, touch it, and then tell everyone its secrets because they could tell her she was lying and she was definitely not a liar! That meant that she was left scrambling for other ways to show off how amazing she was, the wisp was a comfort but it was easy and simple and just a floating light, it was not cool like setting yourself on fire or going invisible!

After doing a circle in front of the judges the girl grinned at them before moving down into a false bow. There was one thing caves were good for: stone, rocks, and stone. But that would do well for her now, or at least she hoped. Without taking her face away from the judges her eyes moved to the side where she had almost stumbled and fallen over a long piece of rock when she was watching the other contestants, wide at one end (by wide it was probably about the same diameter as her wrist) and gradually moving into a point at the other end. She remained in a bow as she looked at the pointed rock (about the length of her leg), head facing one way and eyes facing to the side, and then she tried to reach out with a more difficult magic. One that barely ever wanted to work for her.

She lifted it slightly off the ground, dragging it (literally) towards herself, the pointed end remained on the ground whilst the wider end was lifted up and being pulled towards her with her mind. A headache was beginning to set in but she had to finish this. The end on the ground was drawing a line towards her, scratching the ground, before the rock stopped in front of her. Her eyes moved with it, not letting it leave her sight for she knew that would end in disaster, but she didn't rise from her bow.

With a lot of strained effort she heaved the stone so that the wide end was against the ground and the pointed end was facing towards the sky, she could feel the effort of trying to push it up into that position, her head pounding with the few seconds, but she eventually got the stone to balance so that she didn't have to hold it like that.

Ah, the finale. With a green wisp under her chin and a pointed stone in front of her the girl wanted to finish her gift to the judges. This wasn't exactly what she wanted, she had wanted the pointed end to be pushed into the ground so that the wider, flat end was towards the sky, she could have then tried to climb atop it and balance for her finale. That would have been impossible with how hard it was to get the stalagmite shaped stone over to her in the first place.

She took a deep breath, trying to think through the pounding headache and continue on, she wanted everyone to know that she was awesome and knew things.

With a last ditch effort the girl conjured one more wisp, this one was so much better than the last, a brilliant, toxic green light emanating from the arcane object. She conjured it at the bottom of her miniature tower and made the wisp spiral around the stone as it rose higher until it hovered above the point like a brilliant marker, letting all know that she was here, this was her place and her effort. The wisp that was under her chin, looking dull and small compared to the new one, now circled her makeshift glowing, tiny tower, like a ring. She was panting hard though at keeping the wisps maintained, thank the spire the pointed stone was balanced as she would not be able to hold that and the wisps as well.

Her effort: In front of the girl, now stood and no longer bowing, was a balanced, leopard-made stalagmite stone with a bright, large, green wisp in a perfect circle hovering over the tip. A much smaller and duller wisp was circling around the centre of the stone like a ring. She was proud! "Isn't that green great? I got the idea of the colour from a vision, I see things! I can find secrets out if anyone wants to come find me after, I like finding out secrets! All your magic is so cool, we're awesome. Go us!" She spoke quickly so as not to take up too much time from everyone. With another quick grin at the judges the girl no longer maintained her wisps, for she was growing too tired, and they blinked out of existence, and, before running off to watch the next contestant, she pushed down her artificial stalagmite like stone and watched it roll away. Happy as she took steps back so she could see what the next person had in store.