Chapter 6 SECRETS AND SAIHAS BLOOP

By all means - here's your twenty-eighth dialogue challenge (answers at the bottom), a chance to awaken your inner auteur! *This chapter is a mix of suspense and humor, and drops a few revelations, along with an unexpected magical "blooper*" from Saiha that interrupts things in the most embarrassing way (for everyone, it seems) possible.

### 💥 Scene: Potion Laboratory – Midnight Confessions & Magical Malfunctions

\[Setting:]

There isn't a soul in the potion lab this late, just neon herbs and enchanted beakers murmuring to themselves. Saiha and Adrah are both alone, pretending to "study" but actually spiraling into secrets. Bottles float, as do long-ago memories.

ADRAH:

(stirring a cauldron)

"You've barely said two words since the throne room.

SAIHA:

(muttering)

"I beheld myself as the king of an empire of shadows, Adrah.

It's not exactly the future you take home to your parents."

ADRAH:

(sincerely)

"My parents are fairies and they drink ghostwine and they duel for sport.

By comparison to you, you're tame."

\[Saiha is breathing, neck unclenches, but it's not much.\] **

SAIHA:

"You seriously don't think I'm doomed?"

ADRAH:

"I think doom's just a weird kind of prophecy. And I don't give a shit about what's in your bloodline.

You're not bound by it. You're beating it."

SAIHA:

(softly)

"I want to believe that.

"And yet every time I crack a book, it's another dead king calling my name."

\[Awkward silence. Then -as Saiha goes for a soothersip and grabs accidental a **Fizzy Whispers Draught. [He drinks the wine down as Adrah tries to shout a warning. **

ADRAH:

(widening eyes)

"Wait-Saiha, that's-!"

\[Too late. Saiha hiccups. A vibrant *pop* of glitter explodes from his mouth - and suddenly, he begins **uncontrollably narrating his own thoughts... aloud. **]

SAIHA:

(against his will)

"Oh no. Oh no no -- *why is everything sparkly? *

Why did I say that out loud? Why is Adrah so close?

Why the hell is his hair shining in the glow of the torch like a sexy moonbeam-"

ADRAH:

(grinning)

"Wow, this is getting really educational."

SAIHA:

(horrified, still narrating)

"I want to disappear.