"Well I suppose we can start now," Miss Fine offered, "But I must say before we go further, little witch, I am quite aware of you and your fledgling powers. Before we go on, you must understand that if you fuck with me at all, I will unleash a wrath upon you beyond your wildest dreams. For starters, I can twist you from little miss princess to school bicycle in an instant. No intelligence, no drive, you'd be nothing but a fuck toy being tossed between frat bros."
The blonde cheerleader's blue eyes expand in shock. Her façade of perfection shattered almost instantly. Miss Fine grinned smugly, finally understanding what had happened. Athena thought she was being tricky. "Oh I know a few things, Athena. Your powers and potential, really. You see, this world has...people and beings that would love to find you, Athena. They would use and abuse you and trap you in a never ending rabbit hole where you're nothing but some genie to a rich psychopath."
Athena, sits there, eyes expanded and mouth opened. Her posture slackens somewhat. She wasn't the smart young woman she thought she was, she was just another 18 year old girl who thought she figured everything out. The thought flashes to her brain, "So Miss Fine, all this was done for me? To recruit me as a good little witchy witch with the black hat and wands, and turn everyone else's life upside down?"
"Now now Athena, this is your first lesson in magic. Don't be a narcissist. I did not come here for you. You were a happy accident of sorts, someone who could actually resist me. Not even your good friend Karyn could resist me for long. And before you ask, no Karyn does not have any bit of magic potential. Now as to why I'm here, is because someone asked something foolish of an unimaginable power. That someone has more or less been taken care of, and very much knows about responsibility now. I had to do a lot of cleaning up and making the victims better off. I'm here to find the object of power and destroy it if at all possible. If not, bring it back to the Council."
Athena continued to sit dumbfounded. Not only was her magic confirmed for real, "take that Nadine," but her entire worldview had changed. And this Council thing sounded evil. It felt like so much for her. And it wasn't like she was stupid or anything. In fact ever since...SIGH... embracing her status as a cheer captain, even just to fool Miss Fine, like that ever was gonna work... ugh. So much on her mind.
"I see this lesson is heavy on your mind. Magic is not casting fireballs or launching kill spells at each other. It simply doesn't work that way. Nor does it give you boobs, Athena. You're going to have to embrace your perky b-cup status or save up the money for those nice implants. Not everyone can have my, Sarah's or Karyn's impressive boobs."
"Can we get back to the..."
"Right, the magic. It's not often I get to lord my beauty over some know it all bratty teen. We do not cast, we meditate. We have no wands, no spells. Instead, we are more of weavers. Bringing in different probabilities into this universe. For example, what if Athena was a sexy cheer captain and not an angry goth bitch? But you'll find that you did that to yourself with no involvement from me. What I am offering you is guidance."
Athena snorts, "Hence guidance councilor right?" She punctuates it with a rather endearing giggle. Miss Fine could see this girl would be an issue with the male population. Or in general really. "Look, you are bright, and you catch onto things quick. But this power will mess with you. You have no control over your magical impulses, even if you think you do. No discipline. You'll hear the quote about 'he who fights,-'"
"Monsters yeah yeah of course I'd read Nietzsche. Hullo, goth remember? Doom and gloom and yeah."
Miss Fine shakes her head and continues, "This will chew you up and spit you out. Without control, you'll be held at the whim of your desires. This will act as a beacon for horrible things. Demons. Djinn. Witch hunters. Shadow people. This is why it's risky and you must do what I say. You're about to enter an entirely different reality from the one you woke up in this morning. Are you still in?"
Athena sits there for a minute, letting all this sink in. "Can I give it a while?"
