Michaela After five minutes of pressing the buzzer to get let into Thalia"s building, the door finally opens and I hurry inside. Somehow, I"m now almost twenty minutes late arriving at her flat than I told her I would be. I took more time in the lab than I expected to. I should have known. "I"m sorry, I"m sorry, I meant to be here twenty minutes ago," I say as I push through Thalia"s door and into her room. "I just had to deal with a last-minute thing." I drop down on her bed with a sigh. "Would that last-minute thing have a name?" She raises an eyebrow. I let out a small laugh and pull out the bottle Owen gave me, holding it out to her. "It has the name potion." "Did you make that?" She eyes it warily, as if it has the ability to bite her. I sigh. She may not be wrong about that. I

