Keep the heat to 100 degrees. AT ALL TIMES. OKAY, GOSH.

Easier said than done, to be honest. It required Toby to watch his cauldron thermometre CONSTANTLY and tweak the heat if it looked like the temperature was about to get too high or low. BUT if it DID go higher or lower, then... well... the potion would already be wrecked, wouldn't it? So... yeah. Had to be ON THAT.

But Toby managed, at least it seemed so. No reason not to believe it.

AND the water wasn't boiling, sooooo it looked like the pressure spell had worked.

He looked up at Kyroh again at this point and saw that he HAD finished his hugging of everything that was in arms reach. That was GOOD. He wasn't sure if things were the same for Kyroh, but Toby had a lot of experience with getting all distracted at the start of class and stuff, so maybe he was just MINDFUL of making sure to help Ky avoid such a trap. Maybe.

"Cool stuff," he said to the Ravenclaw, nodding over and over again like one of those muggle car decorations even as he moved on with his own potion.

Lovage, right, okay. Took Toby just a feeeeeew moments to find that from the ingredients he'd already lined up, and he set it up ready for chopping. A quick 'scourgify' on the knife and he was off, CHOPCHOPCHOPCHOPCHOP. He wanted to say that he managed the entire process with no injuries, but this was Tobias. Sure, he could brew a potion, and well, but not without a little collateral damage. Usually nicked fingers or bruised knuckles from overzealous chopping with the knife. STILL... the lovage was chopped, and Toby added it to his cauldron, checking up on the temperature once again.

His four mistletoe berries were all ready to go, as he'd known it would be very soon after the lovage that they needed to go on, and at this point all he needed to do was levitate them across. Which is exactly what Toby DID. Waited five seconds, starting right after the lovage went in, then used his wand to levitate the berries into the potion.

Before they moved on, Toby repeated the scourgify charm on his potions equipment and chopping boards and everything, then once again looked at Kyroh.

"I do see, Ky," he replied, giving a grin to match the Ravenclaws. "You've turned into a real pro, haven't you? You're putting me to shame." That last part was just him kidding around kinda, but it WAS otherwise true. Kyroh had come so far in this class, hadn't he? It was weird to think about. But in a POSITIVE way, of course.