stupid. she should’ve known better. alice was never one to trust blindly, but something as innocuous-seeming as a drink of water … but they were right, she’d made a ( possibly deadly ) mistake. the only relief was knowing that everyone else had made the same mistake. presumably.
❛ — okay, was anyone feeling sick BEFORE the announcement ? i mean, they said we shouldn’t trust anyone, which obviously includes them. the only FACT we know for sure is they said we were poisoned. what’d they say the symptoms were ? FATIGUE ? no kidding, we woke up at the crack of dawn and worked our asses off. who here isn’t fatigued ? ❜
they said denial was the first stage. alice could feel the fear rising inside her, and tried not to think about the failed potion that had already barred her entrance to edin once before. was this test engineered to target her weak spot ? was. keep cool, alice. keep a level head. fuck them. she could do this. she’d apprenticed as a potioneer, for fuck’s sake. maybe it was her weak spot, but she’d fixed it. she’d fixed it.
❛ — OBVIOUSLY we should try and find an antidote anyway. better safe than sorry. i’m just saying, placebo is one HELL of a drug, and we should consider all the possibilities. ❜ surely they wouldn’t actually let anyone die … right ?
