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Apparently all it took was 'challenge' and she was running with it.  Fennec did a heavy, heavy metaphorical eye roll.  She hadn't intended there to be an actual challenge, but her attempt to make the role of apprentice seem hard had evidently come off as indicating some kind of entry test.

She could figure out some kind of hazing, she was sure.  But what would be harmless yet extremely, extremely funny to see happen?  Okay.  She agreed.  A snap idea had flitted into her mind and she'd grasped it.  The first step to becoming a true witch is to commune with the toads.  You have to join them in the swamp, make them think you are one of them, and convince them to tell you their secrets.  Delivering this with a straight and serious tone was a credit to a lifetime of telling lies.  It still took about everything she had.