"Martin makes the bottles out of sand using his powers. He and Evan say the bottles can help decide what powers you get when you Manifest, but Zaneta says that's just something called the placebo effect."

"But his power is magic, so like, maybe."

"Maybe you could ask him to give you a specific one."

"Hmmm... I dunno what power I'd want, though."

"Maybe you could try and get mer powers!"

"No, I want something new."

"Well, maybe you could try to make it so you can shape shift into more than just boy you and girl you."

"Oooooh I like that idea."

"Well, I guess you try and find a bottle that looks shape shifty."

She starts looking.

"I like this bottle." He points to a slender yellow one with a topper crafted to look like a star.

"For yourself?"

"Yes!"

"It's pretty!" She looks, looks, and eventually finds one that's twisty and weird. "This one!"

"Oohs, that's nice." He looks at her. "You know, if we really wanted to, we don't have to wait."

"We don't?"

"Evan has vials of the virus in his room. No idea how he got them. We could inject ourselves."

"...well if we could do that why did they want me to wait until tonight?"

"Well, I heard some of the body changes can be a bit icky."

"Icky how?"

"They hurt, you feel kinda sick for a few days once they start. Without the elixir they kill you most of the time."

"Oh."

"Hmm, maybe I should go first. I don't think the virus will change much about my body because it already works fine."

"So that doesn't help me much! Are you sure that's all?"

"Okay, now I'm nervous again. Should we both wait?"