Royda sat there, hands folded neatly in her lap, waiting for Brianna to speak - or, rather, finish, so that she could tell her own side of the story.

Though, of course, it would be missing a beginning - at least, the 'real' beginning. Royda had, after all, arrived on the scene only after the basics of Corranda's little charm had been thoroughly overviewed.

Oh well. When the time would come, she would relate as much as she had seen and been through. Well and good, no?

Brianna opened her mouth to speak, but was cut off by a knock at the door. She shrugged slightly and nodded, waiting until Syd returned to the office.

"Very good," Syd said, nodding to the man. "Feel free to interview the defendant since she's your client. The police interrogating her in the Evidence Room should give you a couple details too."

He gave Edward a pat on the shoulder and went back into his office.

"Sorry about that," he said to Brianna since the others were still being blocked from hearing.

He sat down at his desk again and got his quill ready again. Smiling as pleasantly as possible (which still seemed a tad dark somehow...), he nodded to the woman to continue.

Brianna nodded, "It's okay...Now, what happened..." She paused, then continued, "Well, Miss Melvicks came to my office to get her charm approved. We went through the normal interrogation, but something about her made me uneasy, so I questioned her a bit more than most. When the questions didn't seem to be enough, I asked her to go and bring a witness who had seen this charm performed." She tilted her head towards Royda, "She brought Royda back with her...forcefully. It took a while to calm everything down from that spectacular entrance, then we started questioning Royda. Her answers were all appropriate and said specifically what we were looking for: A non-harmful spell, with no side effects, and so on." She paused again, this was where it got tricky.

"Royda didn't know what she was saying...she was under a spell of some kind, I'm not exactly sure, but the symptoms appear to be those of the Imperius curse." She leaned forward, towards Syd, trying to impart the importance of her next words, "Then I approved the charm due to a lack of evidence against it, but still against my better judgement. Miss Melvicks offered everyone a drink of celebration, which sadly I accepted. I had a horrible headache and just wanted her out of my office, and this seemed to be the quickest way." She flushed and cast her eyes down to the floor, "I knew better, but I just wasn't thinking clearly, so technically the entire following fiasco was my fault, in a way." She glanced back up, and continued painfully, "The potion made us all sick, then she threw love potions at everyone, in a haphazard sort of way, some met the mark, some didn't....Then things were exploding...that's what the spell really did, it created explosions...She was invisible, so we couldn't find her right away. But eventually, and with help, we were all able to get out and capture her so she couldn't do anything else."

"That's about it, but in condensed form." Brianna said, looking up at him, still feeling guilty about the entire thing, but knowing she had to tell the truth about every aspect.

Brianna shook her head, "We thought that it had, but since Royda was under a spell, she was responding exactly as if the spell was true to form what Miss Melvicks had said. She said she couldn't see her, and since we all still could, it looked accurate to the description of the charm, which was a specific concealment charm. Though what it actually concealed was the true meaning of the spell." Brianna reached into her pocket and withdrew a badly water-damaged, but still legible piece of parchment and handed it to Syd. "If you can read that," she began, "That was the application for the charm. We requested the presence of Royda because of the fact that there had been unsuccessful tests, if there hadn't been, then we would have just tested the charm in our office without needing to interrogate witnesses." She sat back and shook her head, "The was she became invisible was a charm, but it wasn't this one. As soon as she cast this one, everything started being destroyed." She looked up at him, "What else do you need to know?" She was trying to sort through her mind and make sure that she hadn't forgotten anything, not a single detail of the day's events.

Was the man talking to her? Royda looked up, jerked out of her thoughts. She hadn't been listening to Brianna because. . . well, because she couldn't hear her, of course.

"Yes," she said politely, not sure what else to say. "Royda Dames." She sort of wanted to tell him she preferred being called Royda, because Miss Dames sounded pretty, pretty odd to her, but she didn't think it was the right time, so she didn't. Also, she was a little nervous.

That was natural, right? Royda looked to her side, and saw Piper, whom she smiled a little at. It was good to have someone else whose first day it was, around.

Brianna looked around. She was unable to hear what was going on and what Royda was telling Syd, but she was patiently waiting to hear the results of these interrogations. Sitting back in her chair, she let her mind wander back over the previous events and wondered what she could have done differently for this to have not ended up this way.

Royda looked at the guy a little nervously, before finally speaking.

"Well, Corrandadada came to me - You know, I was really trying to shop, man, but she just took me away. I didn't want to, but she forced me to. And there were all these big employees and Heads and stuff. They asked me some questions, I think, but I really don't remember what I answered. And now Miss Brianna says I was under the Imperius curse. I think I was, but I can't remember because Corrandadada modified my memory - at least, I think she did, but I can't be sure, because she didn't cast any charm out loud."

She stopped, to breathe, before continuing. "Corrandada offered everyone a celebratory drink after her charm had been approved. And then Brianna and Madeline and I and Jayden, we all drank it. And we started vomitting. And Brianna caused lots of mayhem and there were broken chairs and snow and water and there was this poisonous gas, too so we couldn't breathe. And Jeremy and Brianna were trying to help and Jeremy got frostbite and Brianna managed to tie up Corrandada in the end, and Piper disarmed her after her hands had been tied. And then lots of other people came too - Mr Forrestor and some other people. And I gave Corrandada some antlers on her head, and -"

She stopped, confused. She was babbling now, because she was nervous, and also well aware of the teensy stain of dirt on the sleeve of her skirt. How awful, no?

Piper got up and signed her name on her testemony parchements and looked over her boss, she seemed tired and a cup of her special tea will reboost her energy.
"Mr. Syd do you need us for anything else?" Piper asked as she looked at the head department. " Are we going to be involved in the court session?"

Brianna stood and walked over to him, signing the paper and handing it back to him. "Thanks for taking the time to make sure you had every version of the story." She didn't know exactly what the others had said, but she just hoped that it all came through alright in the end. Sighing, she went to turn for the door, but stopped as she heard Piper speaking. When he answered no, she nodded, and turned back to the door. It was time to get back in her office and see what all could be done.