Adrien turned to face the wall again. Finally, he started drawing a circle - or rather, an oval - or rather... Adrien stopped, looking at his misshapen egg of a magic circle. Wordlessly, he turned around towards Valerion again, his eyes wide.

"Don't worry; just start over".

His face red with embarrassment, Adrien cleaned the wall and tried drawing a second time. This circle seemed better than the first, he thought as he traced it; but, in the end, he couldn't close it. He wiped it again. He furrowed his brow in resolution as he drew a third circle; he hoped drawing faster would yield better results, but it turned out to be even worse than the first two. He cleared the third circle. Sweating and trembling, he drew a fourth circle. This one seemed to resemble a circle more than the previous ones, but the linework was too shoddy, he thought. He cleared it once more.