Today's #flashfiction #InsanityInABottle

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Insanity in a Bottle

      Tom embodied the simple wizard. The kind of wizard that didn't pay attention when he sorted together his spell components and constantly had accidents. His simple nature could be blamed on his youth. He still spent his days in wizarding school doing homework and all that.

     The boy's worst mistake came when he cheated on an assignment. Normally the consequences for cheated resulted in a simple F and a long lecture from a teacher and parents at his age. However the way he cheated was by directly stealing the potion he needed to make from one of the wizarding professors labs. He sampled it to make sure it was the right one. He thought he was taking samples from the potions meant to change the pitch of your voice. But while sneaking around the simple wizard had turned himself around and taken a potion from the curses section without even realizing where he was. And the curse he had taken was one of the most incredibly nasty insanity curses out there. The fact the professor had left it outside of a safe showed his negligence.

      From the insanity curse his logic became inverted, destroyed or mangled or possibly a combination thereof. Originally the logical thing to do to test something is to just take a sample. But when insane Tom thought to test something he needed to drink the entire insanity potion. It worsened his condition before it even had fully settled in. Before he thought when sneaking around the logical thing to do was to be quiet and discreet. Now he screamed random words loudly and started tackling the walls.

      The commotion quickly summoned teachers to the room and it didn't take them long to piece together what had happened. Tom's old logic would have told him that the teachers were there to help him, his new logic told him they were new. The boy quickly cast some basic attacking spells. The wizards had plenty of artifacts they regularly wore to protect them from any spells a wizard as weak as the boy could use so the boy soon began leaping at the wizards and chewing at their legs.

     It fought the wizards every day they spent working on curing him. They had force feed him as it was the logical thing to eat and drink. They had to cast spells on the boy to make him sleep as Tom new logic told him that it was unsafe to sleep. The curse worsened before it got better in the final days. The wizards had to take full control of his lungs as his logic told him air was dangerous and he tried to hide from it and breathe as little as possible. Eventually they applied all the enchantments to cure him and he recovered, but he retained all memories from the experience.

       Tom became a model student, compulsively attentive to detail, especially labels, and refused to drink a potion ever again. Teachers gave him alternate assignments when it came to potions.