A/N: Ediltrude is looking for something to pass the time when she starts pestering Griffin who doesn't have the slightest intention of being her victim. Set back when they were students in Cloud Tower.
"How about I take a peek at your future next?" Ediltrude offered as she plopped herself down on Griffin's bed, interrupting her reading mid-sentence. She'd just stopped pestering her sister and was looking for a new victim.
"No, thank you," Griffin said without raising her head, sending a clear signal to be left alone. Someone would get hurt if the warning wasn't heeded. She had only so much patience for the twins and their antics on a good day. And today definitely hadn't been one of those. She'd ran into Faragonda in Magix and the hurt look on the fairy's face as she'd ignored her had been... exactly what she deserved. She wasn't her best friend anymore. She was just the reason why no one in Cloud Tower respected her regardless of her abilities that she'd demonstrated more than once.
"Come on, Griffin!" Ediltrude's fake whine had her suppressing the desire to roll her eyes, for that would mean actually taking the time to react to her roommate's actions. And she wouldn't be caught dead doing that. "It will be fun."
"I'm already having fun," she said as she turned the page even though she hadn't finished it. The sharpness of the gesture would supposedly send a message. That was if Ediltrude had enough intelligence to read cues of course. Apparently not since she missed her cue to go away.
"You'll thank me later," the other witch spoke as she grabbed her arm and pulled it towards herself, forcing Griffin's entire body to move against her will and nearly causing her to drop the book. "I see shimmering," Ediltrude didn't even give her the chance to protest as she started her divination, staring hard at her palm and ignoring the death glare that Griffin was sure she could feel in her bones even without looking at her. "Looks a lot like stardust."
That had Griffin's attention. She'd always loved the stars and she knew that Ediltrude was actually good at seeing the future. So maybe it wouldn't be a total loss to give her a minute of her time.
Zarathustra seemed intrigued as well since she abandoned what she was doing and turned to look at the two of them.
"I can also see bright light," Ediltrude glanced at her, a small smirk pulling at her lips now that she saw she had her listening. "And a vast open space that looks like a dark void but is full of small shiny dots, probably stars."
Griffin's mind was already wandering with the possibilities of what a future containing those things would look like. Maybe she'd have her dream to explore the stars up close come true.
"No, wait," Ediltrude's voice pulled her back to the present, "my bad. The color is the light blue of a cloudless sky and the shiny things are pixies. Which means the light must have come from your winx and the shimmering was from your newly-sprouted wings," she barely finished before she burst into laughter and her sister joined her. "You should've seen your face," Ediltrude said between fits of laughter. "You started glowing, just like a fairy."
"I'm sure we can... help you discover... the winx hiding in you," Zarathustra spoke, doubled over. She could barely breathe from so much laughing.
Griffin paid her no mind and waited for Ediltrude to let go of her hand. Though, she probably needed a little push to get her out of her self-induced haze. "You should see your face, too," Griffin spoke as she concentrated on the spell she had in mind. It didn't take long for it to take effect and that was her sign to have the mirror on the wall fly over and get between her and Ediltrude so that the other witch could look at her reflection.
A blood-curling scream followed, interrupting any and all sounds coming from Zarathustra, as Ediltrude let go of her hand to wipe at her face. "What did you do?" she demanded angrily when that accomplished nothing to remove the bright makeup that was more than worthy of a fairy.
"It's an illusion so wiping at it will have no effect other than scrubbing your skin away," Griffin explained. "Though, that will be an improvement."
"Undo this!" Ediltrude ordered, making her blood boil but she'd already wasted too much time and energy on her to allow her to get a raise out of her.
"It will chip away with time. It will be gone after a few days," she said as she scooted back up her bed from where she could lean against the headboard and picked up her book. Great! She'd lost her page. Now she had to look for it.
The mattress shifted as Ediltrude jumped to her feet. "I will-"
"Remember that there's more where this came from," Griffin growled at her as she raised her hand to show that she was ready for a magical battle and stared the twin down even from her sitting position. "Be grateful that there aren't any other... unforeseen consequences in it for you," she allowed herself to mock before glaring at Zarathustra, too, to make sure she understood that referred to both of them.
Ediltrude retreated, fuming internally, to lick her wounds while Griffin focused on her book again. She didn't need divination to see ten moves ahead of airheads like the twin witches.
