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“Drink the potion, Barbie!” the druid called. “You’re holding up the line!”
“Wait!” I called.
“What is the fuss this time, Barbie?” Headmistress Ethel scolded.
“Why is there a pill in my cup?” I asked nervously. “Did everyone else have the same shit in their potion as well?”
I had to make sure. The candidates who had been accepted into the next round shared confused glances.
“I didn’t see any pill in my cup,” Bea blurted out before she was given permission to speak.
Headmistress Ethel glared at me, as if I were a certified troublemaker.
“There’s no pill in it! Your potion is just like everyone else’s,” the druid barked. “Drink it, or you’ll be disqualified!”
“Then disqualify me,” I said, lifting my chin in defiance.
It was better to be disqualified than to be drugged. Who knew what was in that fucking pill? The more the druid denied it, the more suspicious I grew.
“You won’t get out of here until you drink the potion!” the druid snarled, playing tough.
The princes all stood up, ready to walk over to investigate, but the headmistress beat them to it and reached me at a brisk pace.
She stared down into my cup. “There’s no pill!”
I peered down. There was just potion now.
“It dissolved!” I looked up at the headmistress before regarding my potion again. “I know what I saw. I wasn’t lying!”
“Stop stalling, Barbie!” Headmistress Ethel hissed.
“May I have another cup, then?” I asked.
“Request denied,” the druid said. “Every cup is being counted. Drink the potion just like everyone else, girl! We don’t have time for your shenanigans!”
“But I don’t have a good feeling about this one, since the potion in it was tampered with.” I raised my head and looked straight into the druid’s eyes without flinching. “I don’t trust you! You’ve been practicing black magic by sacrificing the innocent in this tower. I won’t be your next victim!”
Gasps rose across the hall at my boldness. No one liked the druid, but no one dared to openly support me either.
A vein throbbed in the druid’s temples, unholy fire in his eyes. “How dare you!”
“Be careful of whom you accuse!” Headmistress Ethel said. “All you’ve done ever since you came to Shades Academy is to stir trouble, you little hellion!”
The druid’s power slammed into me, alien and foul, while I was distracted. I opened my mouth and yelped in alarm. The potion shot through my lips, poured down the passage of my throat before I could stop it.
The empty teacup vanished from my hand.
The princes shot to their feet, but it was already too late for them to intervene.
“What the fuck?” I cried out, rage and fear pounding in my veins.
The milky-white crystal ball started to spin, turning neither red nor green. This was a first. Whispers and gasps filled the hall as everyone waited for the ball to settle.
Humming louder than ever, the crystal ball spun faster and faster, as if it had gone nuts.
“What is happening?” Headmistress Ethel demanded in alarm.
The crystal ball turned pitch black.
