Ask what's in it first

Whether you suspected this might be a trick, or else, genuinely expected the witch wanted to harm you, you weren't about to imbibe that whole potion without first knowing what it was going to do to you. If this was another dissolving acid, you'd find your guts rotting from the inside. You couldn't think of a more painful way to die.

Amulette's eyebrows lowered and her hands went back to her hips. "You're telling me you won't drink it? You'll dash the dreams of this saintess? You dare to defy her demands?" she questioned, beginning her slow circle around you once again.

You shook your head, telling her that if it was safe, you fully intended to drink it. The truth of the matter was that you owed it to yourself and the five other saintesses you were meant to serve to preserve your life a little better than downing a whole flask of acid on your first day. Even children had better sense than that.

Amulette paused in front of you, facing sideways and giving you a wry smile, watching out of the corner of one eye. "Disobedient dummy, I'll deliver you a pardon. But you should know that I do not pretend to pray to perverted Geod, nor do I practice piety by prattling with my peers, the saintesses." She raised one finger so that it rested between your eyes, as though commanding you to look at it cross-eyed. "You are my servant, squire, and you are supposed to serve! If I say hop, you say how high! If I say crawl, you crow, 'how low?'"

That didn't sound like the relationship you'd studied in your texts. You were given to understand that squires weren't necessarily subservient to saintesses. It was more like a marriage than it was slavery.

You saw Amulette's eyebrow twitch for a moment. It seemed this was not the kind of behavior she wanted from her squire. "Hmph. Then keep your caution and cur-like customs. We will speak at another time, where perhaps you may meet me in a merrier mood." She turned, swinging her cape about her, before she went back to testing her dissolving potion. You could see you hadn't pleased her, but you were glad you still had all of your insides on the inside, at least.