She shivered while her own pain fed her power, then her face twisted viciously, and her uniform slumped to the floor as her body vanished, replaced instead by a large blue snake twisting within her clothes. Before she could make it out of the pile, Wilbur bundled it up in his arms, running across the room still crying out like he was charging into battle. He stuffed Isla in the trash can and slammed the lid shut, carving a hole in the ground beneath it with his power and sending her tumbling away into the dark chasm. A riot of laughter sounded out from the onlooking crowd, and my heart lifted
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