There was a knock on the door,and since Elspeth didn't want
James to continue to devolve whilst she was out of the
room she picked up a nearby eyedropper and filled it with a
potion that served as a sort of PAUSE button for witches
spells.
She dripped a few drops on James lizardy form,and after
a half minute to make sure her spell was halted in her tracks
she left the room and went to answer the door.
Since James up to this point hadn't bee aware there was such
a thing as a potion that could act as a PAUSE button on
other spells,he decided to be a good little lizard and just
waited on the table,trying to see if any of the other potions
nearby on the table might prove useful.
Besides the bottle labelled PAUSE
obviously a dead giveaway now that he knew what it did
there were three other bottled stored in the same rack
labelled.....
REVERSE
STOP
and
FAST FORWARD
You didn't need to be a rocket witch scientist to figure out
FAST FORWARD would likely turn James into a single celled
bacteria before long,STOP James guessed would leave
him permanently a lizard
which left REVERSE
which James hoped would make him human again....