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“If you guys had plans today, change them,” Ruby encouraged. “I want Willow to be checked and I’d rather you all be checked as well just in case of any potentially poisonous substances in the air.”
"So the Vile Queen is really going all out, huh?” Loki muttered.
“This is the Vile Queen’s doing?” Saint questioned.
“I was going to solely blame the Coven, but the Russian wizards made her involvement more obvious,” Loki admitted as he crossed his arms, looking extremely pissed. “What’s the reason for you letting them off the hook?” he directed to Ruby.
“Isn’t it obvious?” Ruby tossed back. “We wanted this to happen. The plan went pretty perfectly.”
“We?” Neo inquired.
Willow slowly lifted her hand up, showing a single finger.
“We…minus vomiting my organs out.”
“You’re being dramatic,” Milo noted but continued to rub her back. “Just relax. You’ll feel better in a moment. Almost done.”
“Hold on,” I spoke up. “You two planned this?”
“More like, we knew something like this would transpire and we simply encouraged it to happen.” Ruby elaborated.
“But you two haven’t seen each other since Mount Marcy,” Onyx acknowledged.
“Correct,” Ruby replied. “Which was the perfect time to talk to Willow while the rest of you were briefly snoozing. I told her one of my Seers foresaw the Coven trying to kidnap Milo’s ‘daughter’ and turning Aurelia against her so they could launch a surprise attack on us while claiming immunity from the fae through blackmail.”
“No way,” Saint whispered. “But how did you know it would happen today?”
“I made sure some of my spies were watching the organization. I didn’t see the need to have them watching over you guys since you have two stalkers in your presence,” she explained.
“Hey!” Loki and Onyx said in unison which simply proved Ruby’s case.
“I warned Willow by texting her old phone. That’s actually the reason she’s using it and not her new one. I told her to go along with whatever happens but warned her that she’d feel a sudden sense of tension when the car holding Milo’s daughter was close,” she elaborated.
“So when you froze up in the car…” Dimitris muttered to Willow.
“Bin...go,” Willow commented.
“So you had us all fooled.” Saint sounded disappointed. “I would have loved to eat some souls.”
“Sorry, boys,” Ruby said with a shrug, but she didn’t sound very sorry. “Had to keep it a secret. Trust me that it took some persuading to get your Forbidden Queen on board, but it seemed to pay off cause we have the Coven exactly where we want them.”
“We do?” I questioned. “How so?”
“Remember how I revealed Willow’s a witch?”
“Is that true?” Onyx inquired.
“Mhmm,” Ruby reassured him. “Willow’s a hybrid just like Aurelia is, or what they would call a misfit. That’s one of the real reasons why Willow has enough magic that she can switch genders.”
“I thought that was thanks to the pills?” Saint asked.
“Not necessarily,” Ruby elaborated. “The pills Willow were taking made by Aurelia were supposed to stabilize her magic so that she could remain one gender during the day and another during the night, but that blueprint was made and updated by the Coven. It’s standard for magical drugs to be confirmed by their internal pharmacy, even if Aurelia is pretty confident in her craft. Her pills were probably perfect for Willow, but they were most likely tampered with in the final check they go through, so the pills wouldn’t be as beneficial as they were intended to be.”
“Is it true the pills were blocking Willow’s magic capabilities?” Neo asked.
“Yes,” Ruby revealed. “Their effectiveness was tampered with so Willow wouldn’t be able to grasp how powerful she really is. Obviously, the Coven assumed Willow would never live long enough to find out the truth. But lo and behold, she’s still alive.”
“If Willow’s half-witch, why would the Coven never accept her even though the signs were obvious and she carried more magic than most of the students during her academy days?” Viktor was the one to pop the question.
