Elizabeth May Quote
He opens one bottle and holds it out to me. ‘Drink this one.’Inside is a milky blue liquid with what looks like thin slivers of glass floating in it. Surely he doesn’t mean for me to drink glass. ‘Am I going to regret consuming its contents?’‘No. But I imagine you’ll still call me every expletive you can possibly think of.’ He presses it into my palm.‘I don’t like the sound of that.’ I sniff the vial and scrunch up my nose at a sharp tang that burns my nostrils. Like something that might come out of my chemistry set. ‘Ugh! What’s in this? It smells vile.’‘I knew a human girl once. She was stubborn, like you. Refused to drink the paltry contents of that bottle, like you . . .’ He pauses for dramatic effect. ‘And she died a horrible, painful death – torturous, really – because she wouldn’t take my advice.’I scrutinise him. ‘There was no girl who died, was there?’‘There will be if you don’t drink what’s in that damned bottle.
He opens one bottle and holds it out to me. ‘Drink this one.’Inside is a milky blue liquid with what looks like thin slivers of glass floating in it. Surely he doesn’t mean for me to drink glass. ‘Am I going to regret consuming its contents?’‘No. But I imagine you’ll still call me every expletive you can possibly think of.’ He presses it into my palm.‘I don’t like the sound of that.’ I sniff the vial and scrunch up my nose at a sharp tang that burns my nostrils. Like something that might come out of my chemistry set. ‘Ugh! What’s in this? It smells vile.’‘I knew a human girl once. She was stubborn, like you. Refused to drink the paltry contents of that bottle, like you . . .’ He pauses for dramatic effect. ‘And she died a horrible, painful death – torturous, really – because she wouldn’t take my advice.’I scrutinise him. ‘There was no girl who died, was there?’‘There will be if you don’t drink what’s in that damned bottle.