Just When You Thought The World Was Coming To An End, A Miracle Happens.
Disclaimer: see chapter 1
Chapter 5
Abigail blinked as she opened her eyes. The sun was streaming into the room, and for a moment she had trouble in remembering where she was. She knew she was at Cackles, but this wasn't the room she remembered from last night. At that moment, Constance walked into the room, and everything seemed to click in Abigail's mind.
"Finally awake are we?"
Abigail yawned in response, as Constance sat down on the edge of her bed, already dressed in deep burgundy robes.
"How are you feeling?"
"Better, sort of."
"Well miracles don't happen overnight, but you'll be all right soon."
"I suppose so."
Deciding that this conversation was heading towards disaster, Constance changed the subject to that of breakfast.
"If I could hazard a guess, I'd say that you're rather hungry this morning seeing as you didn't eat anything last night."
Abigail nodded in agreement, before making her way to her room (which strangely had moved from the first floor to the third floor overnight, just down from Constance's room).
Having had her breakfast, Abigail had been sent to explore the castle. She had searched all the dorms, explored the dungeons and the kitchen, had had a look around the courtyard, and was now sitting in the potion lab watching Constance brew potions for the coming year, something which she did very early in the year just to get it out of the way.
"Is magic hard?"
"How do you mean?"
"I mean, is learning to do magic hard?"
Constance thought about this for a moment.
"Well, it all depends on how quickly you pick it up, and how hard you work of course."
"But I can't start to learn for another two years, what am I supposed to do until then?"
Constance paused before smiling and adding bindweed to her potion.
"That Miss Abigail has already been sorted out. You have already had most of your primary education, so whatever you would usually learn during your last two years, I will teach."
"Really?" Abigail seemed a little unsure about this. Once again, Constance smiled at the girl.
"Don't worry; I've had to do it before. Sometimes we get girls who are great at introductory magic, but not too great at the basic skills needed for advanced magic, so I have to keep them up to speed."
"Oh, I see, Ok."
At this point, Abigail made to leave the room.
"Where are you off to now?"
"To explore the castle."
"Again?"
Abigail gave a small smile and nodded.
"Well, I suppose I'll see you later then?"
Again, Abigail nodded. Constance smiled and shook her head as she watched the girl skip off towards the stairs.