[Ellie's P.O.V.]
Perhaps what scared me most was how the most powerful potions like Ant Year made by wizards usually did not have antidotes. If I was beyond saving, the next eight months would truly be my last.
The wizard didn't answer my question and continued to explain about the potion. "The pain will gradually increase every four months. In the last cycle, the person will feel so much pain that they will wish they were dead instead. But suicide is impossible..." The wizard's voice trailed off for a moment as he started to look a little sorrowful.
Hart's lips pursed, he wasn't looking too good either.
"Why?"
It was better to die than to live. I believed most people would choose that too when such pain was involved, but the wizard said it would be impossible to commit suicide.
"When I invented this potion, I added a self-healing component. That means Ant Year was a measure of success and failure in my journey to becoming a wizard.
