Ursula wept and sniffled for a short while as Elladora's question hung in the air. She should've started this whole thing differently, more rationally, but it was too late now. Not that she'd made the conscious decision to opt for melodrama, she'd spent so long fixating on it that it seemed impossible to doubt. Ella was going to chastise her, she would dismiss her, but that wouldn't make her fate any different.

Reluctantly, she pulled away from Elladora so that she could look her in the eye and make her understand. "I j-just know. Witch's intuition." Ursula paused to take in a deep, steadying breath and brace herself against Elladora inevitably ceasing to take her seriously henceforth. "I had a dream. It wasn't an ordinary dream it was more, it was prophetic. I've rarely been so sure of anything in my life, Ella, you must believe me. Tell me you believe me?"

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