Whims and Wants
The Never Ending Quest - Episode 118668
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Now, this was a very strangely specific effect for a potion to work, it is true. Particularly when there was really no rationale that would make this make sense - especially for someone in Fred's situation, where there was another, even bigger obstruction to the life she wanted, and she couldn't even begin to deal with that until she had regained her ability to communicate. Suddenly deciding that she was perfectly fine without that ability turned everything about her wants and motivations on their head, and she suddenly began to feel ill. You see, the actual effect of the potion was to implant a new, all-consuming desire in a person, which would destroy and replace any extant ones - long-term ones, anyway. Phelyp had had this potion lying around for a while, and knew it could be dangerous, but he had determined that he really couldn't restore this poor beauty's voice, and couldn't bear to break that news to her. So instead, he gave her a different gift: making it so she would no longer want something she could never have - even if it meant rolling the dice on her future. In Fred's/Bella's case, her singular long-term desire was now to...
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