The sap was runnier than Sabine thought it would be. It had a strong smell. As she looked into it, fear shot through her mind. What would happen when she drank the sap down was unknown. She sat herself down to prepare, careful not to spill a single drop. She looked one last time at Thorantilth and the imposing bulbous Hist tree, then to Meesei for reassurance. This was the only way the was going to stop being scared of everything, so it was no use being scared now. She looked into the goblet, then quickly raised it to her lips. It tasted sweet, sickly sweet, but earthy at the same time. In her rush to quaff the sap, drops of it ran down her cheeks, not that she could wipe the spillage off before her eyes rolled back and she fell backwards. It wasn't quite falling asleep, it merely felt as if her consciousness had moved elsewhere from her body.

For what seemed like an eternity, Sabine floated amongst a sea of darkness. There were what sounded like voices that were speaking Jel at first, but even though the words did not make sense, Sabine could understand them. They were flowing through her like thoughts, directly injected into her being. There were questions, scrutiny, curiosity. All manner of thoughts, so varied and diverse that Sabine quickly lost track of them all. One by one, the thoughts started to resonate into one thought, a thought that seemed to materialise into a new world before Sabine's very eyes. Wait, she had eyes again?

There was a new scene in front of Sabine that came into focus as reality seemed to reassemble. There was a stone room she was in. It was familiar. Three other figures stood amongst her, a young Ariel, a witch that Sabine recognised from the coven, and Meesei. Meesei seemed much taller than Sabine remembered, until Sabine realised that it was her that had become shorter. She looked down at her hands. She was in a short black robe. She couldn't have been more than ten years old. This was the coven. She was reliving a memory.

"Look up at me, Sabine, this is very important!" The witch shouted. Sabine's head snapped up to meet her gaze with fear. "The void salts are very hard to come by, I need to know why they were spilled all over the laboratory!"

Sabine paused and tried to collect herself. The memories came back to her with the help of the voices, who still hummed and chimed harmoniously. She remembered, she wanted to experiment with the void salts, but had been caught by a sentinel and tried to rid the evidence by casting the salts onto the floor. Ariel had come along to try and take responsibility, trying to protect her younger sister.

This event didn't [i]seem[/i] to have much consequence, did it? What was she meant to do? The last time, Ariel had lied and confessed to being clumsy, taking the blame for Sabine. She often did that. In fact, whenever Sabine did something wrong, Ariel seemed to protect her whenever she could get away with it. Sabine couldn't believe that she had forgotten such acts of kindness.

Sabine wanted time to think, and almost in understanding, the voices of the Hist froze the scene. The voices shared the memories surrounding the events with Meesei, whom Sabine glanced to, wondering.