Having been tied up in bed for five times in a row, Willow learned her lesson for now. 'Don't read when aunt Helga is near'.
Christmas has just passed as Willow and Helena didn't notice the students coming and going from the castle. For the only rooms they used was their sleeping quarters, their mothers office and the dining room of the headmaster.
For outings they used the secret passages they found in their spare time. As aunt Helga had forbidden them to read between 1 PM and 3PM, they had to fill their time with some other activities.
Helena would make some potions with Salazar, as Willow would switch between her own experiment and a secret challenge. As winter came, the towers and the dungeons became too cold to study. After all, the perfect temperature is between 20-25 degrees celsius.
Having found their mothers personal experiment on the 7th floor, Helena and Willow made it their own lair.
They only had to ask for a warm room with lots of pillows and blankets and it would appear. During the holidays it would seem the castle would keep the room the same so they wouldn't have to trouble themselves by waiting for the room to appear. It almost feels like the castle is alive and looking out for their needs.
Coming into the room, Willow lets herself fall down on her personal couch. Opening up her bag, she pulls out a few shrunken books from her mothers library.
The first spell she learned was the spell to shrink and the endless inventory spell. That way she would always have her stuff on hand.
Thinking about all the research she has to do, Willow took as many books as she could from her mothers library. Transfiguration, portions and magical creature books took her interest at the moment. Though that didn't mean that where the only books she took.
Willows current experimentations are about bending space and time, as well as the subject of the soul. She always wondered why magical creatures liked her so much and disliked her sister. Nox said it had something to do with the aura she was giving off, but what does she mean with aura?
Willow sighs as she read a lot of books, but still couldn't find anything about that topic. After searching for weeks, she decided to spend her time more productive. Continuing with her original research. She already found some materials when Godric took her to the goblins for his sword. Now she just needs to research the right enchantments and constructions of the device.
Willow fishes out some instruments that she got from the goblins as she starts to tinker with the materials. Knocks could be heard at the door as Helena walks in. Noticing her sister still stuck with her nose in her experiment, Helena takes out her wand. [levicorpus] Helena whispers as she points her wand at her sister.
Feeling something strange, Willow looks up, only to see the floor above her head. A sigh escapes her mouth as she hears a giggle behind her.
"Could you put me down, I'm working" Willow grumbles as she was almost done with the construction.
"Sure, sure. Only if you put that thing away. It's dinnertime, you know what aunt Helga will do when we... arrive late." Helena smirks as she sees Willow's face turn pale, probably thinking about the recollection of the last time she was late for dinner.
"Yeah, I'm coming, now put me down before we're really late" Willow scowls as she really doesn't want to relive that moment.
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"Well well well, Look what the cat dragged in. Willow I hope you weren't reading again" Helga says as she smiles at Willow. Though the smile on her face doesn't quit reach her eyes.
Willow looks the other way as she quietly mumbles "What's so bad about reading, Salazar does it all the time".
Hearing her words Salazar and Godric choke, but both for other reasons. Salazar sees the look at Helga's face and buries himself in the food on his plate. While Godric seems to quietly laugh at his niece that is trying to divert Helga's attention to Salazar, failing to notice the fire in Helga's eyes that turn to him.
"It seems that Godric would like to join Willow as he finds the situation to be funny" Helga declared as she makes the verdict of the couple of hours that follow after dinner.
Next thing that followed where two people sitting on their knees while listening to Helga preaching about manners and health. This wouldn't look that bad if people didn't know that Helga had increased the gravity on the older and younger witch and wizard. Making sure their knees would hurt for the next few days. And hoping they would learn their lesson sooner or later. For this is only a small punishment, Helga had a lot of time to experiment on Salazar in the past. She found out he was quit the hard learner.