Van arrived home, still unsure of what he’d tell his children.
Summer met him at the door, talking softly, letting him know that the twins tried to stay awake but are tucked in their beds and sleeping well.
No nightmares.
Ah, the sleep of the innocent.
“So, what happened? Are Khiara and the others okay?”
“Oh, m-o-o-o-m …”
Summer pulled her son in for a hug and said that everything would be okay, that they’d do what needed doing and take it day by day.
Sitting side by side on the couch, holding hands, Van explained what had happened at the lab.
“From what I can gather, there were some serious experiments going on. Some were experimenting on the Weather Stone, coming up with a device that could activate it from a distance. Others were analyzing the Potent Cure Elixir among other alchemical potions to see if they could come up a correct formula sequence and be able to custom blend specific cure potions. There were more that I can’t recall … Khiara and her lab partners were making great strides within the horticultural field … **his conversation trails off and Van shakes his head to mentally recollect his straying thoughts** …
For some reason, the Board of Directors wanted last-minute presentations to be shown to key investors and had working models brought up to the board room instead of leading the group into the various lab areas …
You can only imagine what happened next as some presentations ran over their allotted time and further backups happened while scientists were toting their equipment back and forth …
Frazzled works begin to rush in order to get things done and pieces in places they needed to be …
Several of these groups collided in the halls and it set off a massive triggering effect between the various devices …”
“Various weather conditions hit the building! Clouds from the elixirs filled the air!”
Van then “painted” a picture of what happened.
“All will recover, but things will never be the same. Those like Khiara are no longer uniquely endowed. They are now regular sims like the rest of us.”
Oh. My. Goodness.
Summer and Van sat in stunned silence as the full implication of what he just said sunk in.
Khiara is no longer a genie.
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Great tension building. I also love the explosion.
Thanks! Those pictures really set the tone for the scene.
Wow. I am so happy that Khiara is alive, though. Could have been much worse!
True, it could have been. I’m glad Khiara made it as well because I really like her as a character/addition to the household.
So lucky that she didn’t go up in smoke in the explosion. What an interesting way to lose one’s powers!
Good point. I am rather thankful that there weren’t any fatalities due to the wacky weather!
I thought it was a neat twist in the story, but hindsight being 20/20 recently came across a wee conundrum because of it & my daughter helped me think things through.
Oh my goodness! I’m so glad Khiara is alive!
Me too 🙂 I like Khiara and think she adds quite a bit to this generation.
I think she does, too. I really like her a lot.
I nominated you for the Unique Blogger Award: https://neverdoitagain.wordpress.com/2017/08/20/unique-blogger-award-2017s-edition-x3/
Thank YOU! I shall take a look at it when I return from vacation because I’ve been meaning to update my site & setting up an awards area would be a good thing to have 🙂