"What have you done to us?" Nicola demanded to know assertively but anxiously as she fell to her knees, trying to find a logical explanation for the bizarre and unsettling sensations she was currently experience "if you put a hallucinagenic drug in that I'll sue"
Meredith laughed cruelly "Oh, I can assure you the changes you'll be going through are very real, completely permanent and almost impossible to reverse"
"What changes?" James blurted out as he struggled to stay on his feet.
"I'm afraid I have no use for product testers" Meredith explained her deception gleefully "I wouldn't be much of a witch if I didn't know how to brew a potion. But a couple of animals with human voices and personalities. People will pay a fortune for those. Consider your debt repaid"
"You can't be serious?" Nicola tried to sound confident, but there was uncertainty in her voice as she felt her body starting to change.
"Oh, you'll find out soon enough that I am" the witch responded coldly.