Witchling Academy Semester Eight - Avery Song Page 0,94

than enough for anyone to put one and two together.

No way. Elisha's mom!

They stopped right before the row of judges. All of them as shocked as the rest of the courtroom as the security guard closed the door to seal off the room with magic.

"Your Honor, judges, and jury, I'd like to introduce to you Elisha Waters's twin. Due to recent changes that have occurred in the medical center, the Elisha sitting before you has changed her name to Eliza Rose, her surname matching her biological mother, Evelyn Rose. I shall refer to her name as announced to ease the confusion."

It wasn't hard to tell the twins apart - Eliza actually was in a wheelchair, but also she also had multiple light blue strands in her hair.

"T-That's a damn fake!" Elisha declared and slammed her hands on the desk. "This is all just some sort of set up! I want a new-" she tried to continue but her voice went out, which left her in bewilderment as she tapped her throat.

I sensed the stream of magic and followed it to where Professor Phoenix, Ms. Electra, and their other council colleagues sat. I expected the silence spell to be conducted by Professor Phoenix, but Ms. Electra rose up, her expression almost deadly in intensity.

"We've had more than enough of these interruptions." Her voice thrummed with command as her darkened eyes landed on Elisha. "Sit."

She was forced to sit back down before she looked to Eliza and Ms. Rose.

"Carry on."

"Thank you," Lisette thanked before turning her attention to the mother-daughter duo. "I bet the most important question and shock of this revelation is Ms. Rose's arrival. Ms. Rose actually works in my universe and has been assisting our agency, Tracker Hive, just recently. I knew she was familiar from a picture I noticed on Officer Waters’s desk after I warned him on my client's behalf for a different issue, but when I was called, she just so happened to be present," Lisette revealed as she walked over to them.

"Not only did Elisha send Ms. Rose away, but she was also encouraged to do so by another adult. How do I know this? Well, I did some digging and realized that Officer Waters’s home has always been equipped with surveillance cameras due to his position in the force. With some extensive snooping, I was able to find the very clip of the twin's bedroom when Elisha and her mom got into an argument and she ‘ordered’ her mother away. She used a special word, one that can only be used by someone from that universe, and, well, the simple spell pushed Ms. Rose into that universe with barely any memories of who she was."

I was gawking at the news as Ms. Rose nodded. "When I arrived in a different universe, I was thankfully found by a good Samaritan. I had no recollection of memories other than my name and a few minor details. It took years of therapy and some trials with new technology in that universe for me to finally remember my past, or at least enough to know the world I was in wasn't mine, and that I had a husband and children elsewhere. However, I already had commitments and didn't know how I'd get back to this world. That's when I met Lisette and her team before recent events led me here. She brought me to meet Eliza and I remembered the exact details of the entire incident."

Lisette nodded. "Adding to that new information, which I'll gladly share for final review during recess, I was able to record and document every detail regarding the incident and how Elisha has been using Eliza as a scapegoat. Obviously, with Mr. Waters in charge of the investigation, some details were purposely left out of the primary report. Some of it includes traces of black and very light blue strands of hair in the car, which was a rented vehicle. If you further look into Eliza's history, she regularly dyes her hair, which is stated on her health examinations. It is explained that she has to do it almost monthly to hide her blue strands that are normally mistaken for grey hairs and associated with stress. A mere review of those records would have proven that there were not one but two individuals in that car. Chances are Elisha teleported out of the car, seconds before it hit Brianne that night, and there's a huge chance Eliza was used once again for Elisha's shenanigans,