So studying at the Library hadn't exactly gone well... but she had got out the books she thought would be useful... Though she wasn't allowed in the restricted section because no teacher had asked her to get this. Pffft.

Aurora plonked her pile of books on a table and sat down, dragging the first one off the pile and flicking through it. Deadly Nightshade... where would you beee.... Nope. Maybe it'd be under Belladonna. Hmm... here it was...

She tried to read the passage under this entry but it didn't really give her much knowledge in the area of what it could do to a person... pfft. And the words were all jumbly and swimming about on the page and all the letters were in the wrong order and... gah. She couldn't concentrate... Her brain kept thinking of other things..

Like the reason she was looking for Belladonna... the phial in a mokeskin bag in the top drawer of her bedside table. And the little box that was in her pocket. The little box wrapped in green and silver wrapping paper. Because it was Kennedy's birthday... and however much she tried to tell herself that getting him something was a bad idea she just couldn't restrain herself from doing so... He was of age now... and her mother had made a batch of this anyway... so two little phials wasn't going to make much difference and it wasn't as though she'd spent loads of money on him or anything... She'd given the first to Mordred for Christmas but... this one... seemed right for Kennedy. Somehow.

She shook herself and went back to her book... nope. This one was no good. She pushed it out of the way and grabbed another from her pile. Belladonna... hmm...