The Wizard's Potions

A Continuance of A Girl, A Goblin, and an Evil Spell

The Wizard's Potions

From time to time, the girl would see the wizard during her travels. She was never quite sure if she met up with him through happenstance or if he somehow preordained the meeting. She felt as though he chose when he would see her.

On occasion, he would offer new potions for her to partake.

One potion was meant to combat the bone-tiredness. The girl was so happy and relieved because it worked like a charm; for a while. She had many invincible days! Then, it stopped working. The wizard had told her that if the potion stopped working, she should stop taking it for a short while, and resume it in a few days. Sometimes that would restart the efficacy, the wizard told her.

That little trick worked for quite some time until the potion stopped working altogether. The girl asked if the wizard had changed the formulation, but he hadn't. He did contrive a new potion that was supposed to help fight the bone-tiredness, but that potion didn't work either. Once again, she got used to being bone-tired all the time.

The wizard offered up all sorts of potions. During one particularly rough spot, the wizard gave her a potion that was meant to dispel some of the worst manifestations of the spell. That potion lit a fire of rage inside the girl like none she had ever seen. She thanked the wizard very much, but told him she would not be taking that potion again.

Another potion he concocted was supposed to prevent the girl from feeling new sensations, but it made the girl sick in a different way. There were a few potions that belong in that category, actually.

The wizard would interview the girl, and try to produce new potions to help her with her wrong vision, fairy-dusted legs, the arms that weren't wet, the corset no one could see, and the bone-tiredness. The girl had developed new sensations, too, like headaches that didn't go away, balance problems, trouble speaking, and having trouble thinking.

The wizard did his best to develop new potions, but none seemed to help the girl. This bothered him greatly, for he was a very powerful wizard who was not at all accustomed to being powerless. He thought it was peculiar how the girl is the one who is under the spell, yet he is affected, too, except in a different way.