Scarlett (Second Edition)
“Please, wash your hands in the bowl, one at a time, so I can seek answers.”
One by one, we each placed our hands in the cool water of the bowl, feeling a strange prickling sensation as we did so. When we’d finished, Elsa leaned over the bowl, her gaze sharpening, and I felt a shiver as a cold breeze drifted through the room. The bowl began to glow faintly, as if it held a hidden fire, and the air felt charged, almost alive.