Curl up and hide with Sapienta, hoping to sleep off DRAGONFORM

It's not technically out of bounds. You hope that the Assistant Warder will properly carry the message. But between your restless night caught in a dream loop instead of visiting Dorothy's dreams, and your fatigue followed by Rebecca's catastrophic elemental conjuration that touched off a lightning-throwing magical storm, you just can't even.

Miss Wormwood has declared the Infirmary's baths closed, stoked the heat, and left you and Sapienta to curl up together.

Roll +BRAVERY(+4) to ENCOUNTER Sapienta and recover from, well, everything.

⚁⚂ + 4 = 9.

When you HAVE AN ENCOUNTER, on a 7-9, you have to convince them or expend a FAVOR.
Use Miss Wormwood's FAVOR to recover from your CONSEQUENCE.

You feed Sapienta from a little cut on your wrist. More awkward and difficult with your scales, but your claws dig in deeply enough. With her fed and settled, you enlist her help in recovering from your long, terrible day. But the warmth of the heated stones and her full belly of blood make her drowsy, and as closely tuned in as you are, the two of you are soon fast asleep, curled up together in the refuge of the Infirmary's detached private baths.

You startle awake, hissing.

Miss Wormwood nods. Her dust-dry voice holds a note of amusement. "You'll want to practice with Sapienta more, before you have another day like that."

Before you can open your jaws to reply, Miss Wormwood's finger touches the tip of your snout.

"I expected this," she says. "Open up."

She pours a bitter draught into your mouth and compels you to swallow by the **** of her steel-wire strength and two of her full-head crown of snakes tickling their tongues into your nostrils. The potion runs through you like a dose of her venom. You're cramping, shaking, sweating, and convulsing in her embrace.

She bears you up and immerses you in the waiting bath.

"Prefect from your house left a basket for you," Miss Wormwood says. "Ishtar Stellaris." A smile plays about her lips. You think it's a smile. Was Ish another one of the Nurse's, well, pets? Or perhaps Ish had had occasion to seek treatment here for reasons that amused Miss Wormwood.

You splash a bit in the bath. Morning light shines across from a window onto a glossy tiled mosaic, lighting its figures with gleam and glory. You're starting to feel good to be in human form again.

Miss Wormwood adds, "Ah, and Golondrina? Your Prefect is gone, but your suitemate, Miss Honeybee, she's waiting."

You were feeling good for a moment there. Well, it's not like you were doing anything else right away. But you could think of something.

DEAL WITH YOUR HANGER-ON.

Roll +AMBITION (-2) to PUT OFF or to APPEASE your HANGER-ON Rebecca Honeybee.

⚄⚅ - 2 = 9.

On a 7-9:

• You may PUT OFF Rebecca Honeybee. She's a persistent distraction, but eventually you shake her off. Take -1 Forward on your next ACTION.
• You may APPEASE Rebecca Honeybee. She's annoyingly clingy, and gets in the way of concentrating. Take -1 Forward on your next ACTION.

Dorothy the Porter, Marina Madeline, Housemaster Fergus Firetail, and Miss Wormwood are your FRIENDS. Dorothy owes you a FAVOR. Your serpent familiar Sapienta also counts as a FRIEND.

Rebecca Honeybee is your HANGER-ON (-1 to rolls against her).

You have 1 XP, -1 AMBITION, +3 BRAVERY, +1 CUNNING, and +0 DILIGENCE.
You know the spell DREAM SENDING.