"Thanks." Cassnadra said, glad that the whole mess was finally over. She figured she must get back to the office as well, but she wanted to make sure Jeremy would be okay before she did, besides, technically she is off of work. Letting out a sigh, Cassandra decided it would be best to leave and follow her boss back to the 2nd level. "You'll be alright now Jeremy, I must get back to the headquaters." She told him. She gave him a quick hug and headed for the lifts that would take back to her office.

Dorya-Mae, listening to Brianna's details, could just picture the scene. Snow, rain, poison, love potions? Whoa, it must have all been . . . disastrous.

She nodded, saying kindly, "Thank you. That was helpful." Then she inspected Brianna more closely. "You look weak... You became a victim of a potion, too, I presume?" she asked. She dug into her bag, taking out a conical flask, and pouring its contents into several, tall goblets. She then handed one each to every person around her.

"Here, have this. It should restore your strength. Goodness knows all of you need it. And it's no celebratory drink, either, I assure you," she added with the ghost of a smile, turning, then, to address Jeremy.

"Frostbite?" she asked, her eyes wandering to his hands. She shook her head, a little sadly. "You were in the snow plenty, then? May I know how long?"

Jeremy gave a shurg. "Cant really tell you." he said looking down at his hands. " But I think I was in there along time...' he told the woman asking about his hands.

Dorya-Mae nodded. "Open your palms flat," she instructed. Once Jeremy had done so, she made a complicated figure in midair, with her wand, then tapped each of Jeremy's hands twice with its tip.

"That should make sure it doesn't spread," she said, approvingly. "We need to make sure you don't lose any more body heat, though." She fumbled in her large bag again, this time bringing out quite a different potion.

"Drink up," she told Jeremy briskly. "You should feel better after that. I'm sure your hands will heal - it may take up to a week or two for them to heal fully, though."

Brianna drank the potion given to her and felt a little better. Her head wasn't quite spinning as much, and the room seemed to be staying still again. She watched as the Healer treated Jeremy and couldn't help but grimace in sympathy as she saw his purple and black hands. In a small voice, she asked him, "Does it hurt much?" Still thinking everything was her fault didn't make it any easier to watch as everyone was treated.

Forrester moved towards the Experimental Charm office... The employees were still outside and it seemed that a healer was healing them. Cassandra wasn't there anymore as he knew that she was in the evidence room watching over Corranda.
"Im sorry to disturb you again but I need some witnesses to represent against miss Corranda... I guess miss Brianna you would like to join her court... But I would need also the person that was able to disarm her and send her the last blow... And one more that you miss Brianna will choose... So how was it the last person to cast a spell on miss Corranda while fighting her?" Forrester asked as his eyes looked at each person waiting for an answer.

Dorya-Mae, hearing Brianna's words, looked up at the Division Head. "Are you better yourself?" she asked, still rummaging in her large, healer's bag. "Headache? Nausea? Let me know if there's anything the matter. We'll get you your strength back in a jiffy."

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Forrester moved towards the Experimental Charm office... The employees were still outside and it seemed that a healer was healing them. Cassandra wasn't there anymore as he knew that she was in the evidence room watching over Corranda.
"Im sorry to disturb you again but I need some witnesses to represent against miss Corranda... I guess miss Brianna you would like to join her court... But I would need also the person that was able to disarm her and send her the last blow... And one more that you miss Brianna will choose... So how was it the last person to cast a spell on miss Corranda while fighting her?" Forrester asked as his eyes looked at each person waiting for an answer.

Royda, having drunk deeply from the drink that the brisk-looking healer her just offered her, felt much, much better. She could feel her legs again, and she no longer wanted to throw up or sink into the ground. The feeling of cold, too, had vanished. But the shock was still there, clear in her large, blue eyes. But, yes, she was better; her hands moved of their own accord, smoothing out the creases in her short, navy blue skirt, and making sure her kohl had not spread too much - a definite sign of recovery: she was beginning to feel self-conscious again.

She forgot it all when Forrester re-entered, though. Before anyone could respond to his words, she had turned to Brianna, her eyes huge, very huge - "Are you going to tie Corrandadada up and send her to Azakaban? Are you going to tie me up and send me to Azkaban, too?"

"For now no one is going to Azkaban so please get a grib on yourself... Besides why would we want to send you to Azkaban? Or else did you have anything to do with this? Did you know what Corranda was planning?" Forrester asked.

"Im the one that casted the last spell on Corranda while battling her it was the disaming charm I think" Piper replied as to the Auror Division Head.
She was still wondering why was she the only one not hurt by the old witch attack, she wasn't the best in fighting and catching bad guys and she was her first day in the ministry so why was she the only one not suffering from poisining or sevear injuries

Brianna looked gratefully at the healer, "I'm still kind of shaky, but I'm already feeling much better. I'm also still a little weak." She didn't like admitting that she still wasn't up to form, she hated feeling weak.

Hearing Royda speak, she looked over at her, "I don't think anyone would find wrong in what you did...Corranda had you under some sort of spell, I'm sure of it!" She then turned to Forrester, "I was the one who cast Incarcerous on her, but Piper," she gestured to her newest employee, "She is the one who disarmed Corranda. So it's between the two of us. Oh, and I cast the silencing charm on her when we first got out here in the corridor, she was being loud and rude to everyone and I didn't have the strength to deal with her anymore."

"Very well can you please choose a third party witness?" Forrester asked gently not willing to over stress miss Brianna.

"Third party witness?" Brianna frowned, not quite sure what he meant, "Do you mean someone that wasn't there at the beginning?" She must be more tired than she thought, a simple phrase was totally confusing her. She continued to frown and looked questioningly at Forrester.

Jeemy looked down at his hands and did what the woman told himto. He gave a small shake of the head to Briana and looked around for Cassie She must have left.

"Oh miss Brianna I need you to choose a third witness from the people that are standing here but one that had watched everything... I mean that has been there from the beginning... I was thinking of this woman here..." Forrester said as he pointed at Royda... "So what do you think?"

Well... She had not done anything wrong, now, had she? Royda looked at Forrester in a small way, then said, "Oh."

She quickly shook her head when he asked her if she had known of Corranda's plan beforehand. "I wouldn't have, like, fought her if I had known and been going along with it, all this time," she said and, for the first time, there was a hint of pride in her voice. "I'm nothing of the outlaw sort, man."

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"Oh miss Brianna I need you to choose a third witness from the people that are standing here but one that had watched everything... I mean that has been there from the beginning... I was thinking of this woman here..." Forrester said as he pointed at Royda... "So what do you think?"

Royda looked up at Brianna, almost expectantly. She was scared, yes, but - as far as she could discern things, anyway - they had no plans of sending her to Azkaban, or locking her up. The sooner she could leave, the better but, if she could help them all in any way, Royda was fine with that. In fact, she wanted to.

- She just hoped the antlers she had given Corranda lasted.

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Brianna looked gratefully at the healer, "I'm still kind of shaky, but I'm already feeling much better. I'm also still a little weak." She didn't like admitting that she still wasn't up to form, she hated feeling weak.

Dorya-Mae nodded. "If you're sure it's just the weakness and nothing else, have another swig of this." She poured some more of the formerly-giving out potion into Brianna's goblet, and added, "This should do the trick. Frazzled nerves, I presume."

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Jeemy looked down at his hands and did what the woman told himto. He gave a small shake of the head to Briana and looked around for Cassie She must have left.

Dorya-Mae's eyes lingered on Jeremy, the way they always used to linger on all of her patients, wanting to make sure they were absolutely alright when they left her. "You better, young man?" she asked briskly, looking around to see if there was anyone else around who needed medical aid.

Jeremy looked back up at the woman. Of course he didnt expect the medicine to work as soon as he took it but he was starting to get a tingle in his hand, He nodded to the woman. "Thank you." he told her glad she helped even though eh hated healers.

Ivan, with some difficulty, finally managed to find the Committee on Experimental Charm's meeting room. He didn't have the best sense of direction on normal occasions and, what with his slightly looney boss giggling and wandering off in directions of her own, well...he'd nearly hauled her over his shoulder to carry her.

But that might've gotten him fired.

So Ivan did what any harried man does when faced with an illogical, emotional woman. He begged, pleaded and attempted to trick her into heading the way he thought they needed to go.

So it was with great relief Ivan strode into the room, Madeline in tow.

He'd expected all sorts of mayhem, but things look almost - almost - normal. How disappointing!

Brianna nodded to Forrester, "Yes, Royda would do fine...she was there from the first part of the Charms inquiry." She smiled at the woman, remembering her help when she'd been under the influence of that first, disastrous, potion. She sat up a little straighter and drank some more of the restorative potion the healer had given her. Strength seemed to be slowly seeping back into her body. She glanced over at Jeremy and down at his hands, "Are they feeling any better?" She asked quietly. She was about to add something else when Ivan walked over to where they were. "Hello there, I see Maddie found you. I hope she is better now?" She drew her eyebrows together, in a worried way, "Please tell me she isn't all forgetful and such now?" She looked into her office, the disaster was still evident, but at least there wasn't snow or water up to the ceiling anymore. She sighed, this had been a long day, and didn't show any signs of ending anytime soon.

"Very well Miss Brianna all what it is left for us to do now is tha you follow me to the department of law enforcement where you will be in a meeting with my department head... I don't see why it should be now if you haven't fully recovered but if you do I would be happy to escort you" Forrester said as he looked at the Experimental charm division head.

"I will be happy to help" Piper replied to the Auror division head. " Just tell me what to do and I will do it of course after miss Brianna had instructed me"
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"Actually," Ivan jerked a thumb over his shoulder at his goofy boss, "she might be worse. Apparently it was a potion to induce memory fracturing. I have a few memory-fracture-reversal incantations that can help, but if the original cause was potion-based...well, I'm not sure if it'd 'hold' - so to speak. She'd need a potion to shore things up permanently." Ivan wiped his brow. He'd worked up a sweat running to and fro after Madeline.

"Oh..." Ivan's eyes shifted left and right. He lowered his voice. "Just between you and me...do you happen to have any ink-retardant potions on you?" Ivan held up his ink-stained hand. It was an almost permanent part of his anatomy these days. "You know...as a favor, could you lend me some?" He assumed it was the sort of thing Healers kept in their back pockets - what with youth these days so wanton in their application of magical tattoos.

Jeremy looked at Brianna. "I cant start to feel some tingling. He told her. He looked around. Everyone seemed tired or distilled. He decided this was the best time to go and sit down. Away from everyone. he headed over to the cafeteria.

Madeline giggled from behind Ivan's shoulder. She seemed to be in a much more delightful state than when she had left Brianna and the others before. "No no no, Ivan dearest, Corranda said it was a love potion. Wasn't that what it was?" Madeline asked, looking at Brianna. She was almost certain that the woman had fallen subject to the same charm as her, only it was behaving differenly for her. "But that didn't happen to me, and I seem to be the only person experiencing this side effect. I'm pretty sure it was the same potion...but then again I'm still not sure on a lot of things."

She plopped down in a nearby chair and started playing with her hair in a very girlish sort of way as she looked at the rest of the people in the office.

"A...a love potion?" Ivan repeated with significant alarm. Was that why Maddy had come all the way to the shopping mall to get him? Last thing he needed was his boss in love with him. The repercussions of an interoffice romance...not to mention the gossip...it'd all be so very, very awkward!

"Uh..." Ivan turned desperately to the Healer, "you do have something for that, don't you?" Dear Merlin! Who knew how long this experimental love potion with memory fracturing side affects could last - she could be giggling like a dippy schoolgirl for weeks. How could he hand in reports to someone who would likely draw little hearts in the margins? (He remembered school. He knew what love-struck girls were like!)

Brianna nodded at Madeline, "Yes, it was a love potion, but most of us affected fell in love with Corranda..." She gave Ivan a significant look, trying to tell him that the reason Madeline was acting this way was because of the potion.

She could feel the potion the healer had given her coursing through her veins. She already felt much better. Her head was no longer spinning and she felt the strength returning to her body. She stood up, surprised and gladdened to see that she could do so without shaking or feeling the room tilt. She turned to Forrester. "Piper, Royda and I will be glad to accompany you to your Department." She turned to her employee, "Are you feeling up to it?"