No explosions happened from Benny so far. Goody! Adi watched him finish the remainder of his steps, nodding in approval. The boyfriend was definitely getting better at potions which really pleased Adi. He was a good teacher, wasn't he? Woops, there went the minor head swelling as he mentally complimented himself.

But looky! More instructions!

Adi sprinkled the moonstone in the middle of the cauldron as instructed then carefully but quickly added the thorns. Alrightey! What now? Oh, the salamander blood! The eight drops were added using the cleaned dropper one after the other until there were eight in total. Wheee! So far, so good! And yes, he had been observing that mother-of- pearl sheen so this was confirmation that he was still doing everything correctly.