"You're so full of energy, Alice! How do you do it?" he asked as he placed a small sprig of flowers on the dish. Meanwhile, Alice poured her elixir into the final little red teacup on the table. She looked up and smiled at him.

"We'll all be full of energy by tonight!" she said with a wink.

That night's tea party was exciting indeed. What began as a proper evening of sipping tea and having refined conversation ended with everyone hallucinating and throwing glass bottles at the neighbor's house thinking it was a gigantic mosquito about to suck their blood.

All because of a little elixir mixed in with the tea.