The Prank

The Ink

The lichen for todays breakfast was french toast flavored. Callum had found out this was one of his favorites. Aaron sat next to Call on his left and Tamara on his right. Acrossed from him was Master Rufus. Call glanced up and noticed Rufus looking at him with an amused look.

"What?" Call said.

"Nothing," Rufus replied, "I just have a feeling you're going to enjoy what I have planned for today"

"That doesn't sound good." Tamara said nervously.

"Why," Call retorted, "I don't just like things that get me in trouble you know."

"Relax," Rufus interupted, "when I said 'you're' I meant all of you."

"So what are we doing?" Aaron added, joining the conversation.

"You'll see" was Rufus's answer. Call, Aaron, and Tamara all looked at each other, curiosity shining in their eyes.

------------After Breakfast---------------------

The classroom they went to today was different than any they had been in before. It reminded Call of the science rooms at his old school. With lots of beakers, sinks, cabinets with ingredients each carefully labeled in neat handwritting, and in the middle a table with three pairs of goggles.

Master Rufus opened a book up to a page titled '24 Hour Permenant Ink', and sat the book on the table.

"By the end of today I want you each to have made 8 ounces of ink. You may work together or make it into a game to see who can make the best ink." Master Rufus instructed them before leaving them to work.

"We're going to make it a game, right?" Call asked.

"Of course" Aaron and Tamara said in unison, and they began.

------------A few hours later-------------

"How did you do it Call?" Tamara said trying to figure out why her ink had hardened into an ink brick.

"I just followed the instructions" Call said, "I'm suprised, I never expected to do better than little miss rich kid." Call teased.

Aarons hadn't turned out right either. It wasn't a brick, but it was too thick and had chunks of hard ink in it.

At that moment Master Rufus walked in. Next to him Call could feel Tamara tense up.

"Well this is a surprise," Rufus commented looking at each of their inks. "I didn't expect.."

"I know. I'm sorry I failed you Master." Tamara burst out, fighting back tears.

"Actually I didn't expect any of you to get it right." Master Rufus explained, his eyebrows doing some weird sorry/excited expression. "It is a very complex recipe, it took me four tries to get it right."

Tamara looked in disbelief up at him, "and you couldn't have mentioned this sooner?" she said with out thinking.

"I thought you guys would notice that the book is titled 'Recipes for Experts'." Rufus replied.

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Don't worry the prank part is coming.

I don't own the characters, all rights go to Holly Black and Cassandra Clare