The dismissal makes the horror visible. Take a CONSEQUENCE.

As the energies of the dismissal wrap round the Sending, it becomes visible to you. A squirming mass of tentacles, with nightmare eyes, jaws and hooked barbs, it reaches toward you. The last syllable of your spell comes out with a scream, and the Sending disappears in a cloud of foul vapor.

The reward for your success is a sick headache. You bend over the little washstand and vomit up the remains of your dinner.

"Oh Morgan," Fay says, rubbing your shoulders.

You rinse your mouth with the pitcher from the washstand.

"Hell on a stick, what a horror," you say. When you close your eyes, you can still see writhing tentacles. "Who would have sent that?"

"One of Whiplash's pets," Fay says. "Housemaster wouldn't have done me down in person, but one of his favorites, if they heard him giving me shit for flipping Houses, they could take it on themselves to dump that on me."

"Yah," you say. "Oh, curse Boarbristle's rules, I cannot punish her disloyalty as she deserves. I could see that."

"More or less told me that to my face," Fay says. She laughs. "Wished he was telling it to my arse with one of his switches."

"Ugh, that doesn't make it better," you say. You took one of the Housemaster's lashings in place of Prefect Pip.

"Oh right, your bum is probably still burning," Fay says. "Double ugh, let's get this washed out."

You and Fay tiptoe to the Leontes Senior Women Students' Necessary Room and wash away the actual and emotional stink of the horrific sending as best you can. But you can't bear to sleep in the dormitory room, so you and Fay end up curled up in a grand chair in front of the embers of the fire in the Senior Students' Drawing Room.

Sleep comes, uneasy and disturbed. There's a little bustling and scuttling about, someone taking care of the fireplace. You drift off again, your nose in Fay's soft, sweet-scented hair.

You wake again to a touch on your shoulder. It's the Tutor of House Leontes, Preston Sharper. Preston is an older man with quick, jittery movements. You heard he was a legendary duelist, once upon a time.

"Now then, Morgan and Fay," he says. "Why are you sleeping out in the Drawing Room?"

Even after some sleep, your head is still aching and you feel fatigue weighing on your shoulders.

The Tutor takes you to his office and asks for your explanation. Roll an ENCOUNTER to get help with the results of the Sending.

Roll ENCOUNTER: +BRAVERY (-2) (-1 Bravery, -1 Consequence) to get Preston Sharper's help.