"How do you know Julius?" Nate asked, his wand still pointing purposefully at the half dressed woman sitting on his bed "and how did he get you in here?"
"I only met him when I arrived here this evening" Christina slowly began to lower her hands in an attempt to deescalate the tension in the room, but it didn't work.
"Keep your hands up where I can see them!" Nate warned as Christina raised her arms again, it seemed he was enjoying this power trip "And answer the question.
"I don't really know how I got here" Christina admitted.
"You expect me to believe that?" Nate seemed almost insulted by this response as he cocked his wand a little "I'd strongly advise you to stop playing around with me. You do realise I could turn you into anything I want, right?"
"I don't doubt that" Christina replied "But that is my honest answer"
There was a hint of excitement for Christina at Nate's warning, but mostly fear. A handsome young wizard was threatening to transform her into goodness knows what, if this had been a made up story it would have been a turn on, no doubt. But this was real life. Now there was a very real chance that she could actually be transformed Christina was pretty sure she didn't want it to happen. What would it feel like? Would she ever be restored to her old self? The small part of her that wanted to find out was overwhelmed by the much larger part that was determined to remain human. She was good with words and would need to talk her way out of this one somehow.
"Why don't you wait until Julius and the others come back. They'll back me up" Christina offered hopefully.
"Back you up on what? That you appeared here out of nowhere? That doesn't answer my question" Nate kept his wand trained keenly on Christina and it looked increasingly like he was about to use it.
"I was sitting at home on my computer and I just ended up here" Christina's heart was racing as she decided honesty was the only policy available to her, as crazy as the truth sounded "I must have been brought here by some kind of magic. Magic exists here, right?"
"Oh, it certainly does" Nate smiled a little wickedly as he swirled his wand around and muttered some indecipherable words before aiming it at Christina.