Christin was left to male a meal a d she was fuming. Those stupid foul hags! Making her a maid and rendering her mute! While James was left to suffer the advances if these witches! Especially that Gilda. Who does she think she is? With her coquettish ways as if she was still young and pretty. Ridiculous! She just looked ludicrous, fawning over men that were much, much younger than she. She looked like a caricature of an elderly woman trying to seduce handsome young men without comprehending that her days of sexual appeal were long past and had no understanding of her wrinkles and other symptoms of age. She must see that men did not turn their heads towards her when she sent them overt messages of interest as they used to. If they ever did to start with. No amount of magic could put some good sense into her mind, apparently. For all of her magic powers, she was jealous of Christina and was taking a revenge as idiotic as she was. Her two sisters weren't much better either. In fact, they were just as bad. They were making James and her be slaves and pets. Mere playthings to their wills. Anything could be possible with such crazy hags and certainly the worse. But she would find a way out, mute or not and whatever humiliating outfit she was in. She'd find a way to get back at them eventually.
She was so engrossed into her thoughts that she slipped while preparing the food and made a plate smash onto the floor. It broke in what seemed like a million pieces and with a thunderous noise. The utter silence that followed was broken by the stomping of feet and the worst of the three arrive angrily. Gilda.
"My plate! My favorite plate given by my mother! You broke it, you stupid shameless strumpet!"
Christina was frightened and in her fear opened her mouth to say utter a silent excuse. Gilda took out a wand from her pocket and waved it in short and angry gestures over the porcelain shards. The plate reassembled itself at once. Christina thought that since she could reassemble her precious plate, Gilda was making a fuss out of nothing. Alas, Gilda just wanted a pretext to get rid of Christina for good. She glared at the girl.
"Since you cannot be even a maid and a servant, you might as well be something else!" she cried.
And with that, she blasted a spell aided by a wand towards Christina.