A quick glance around the room proved that she was moving entirely too slow. How much time had passed? It couldn't have taken her that long to smash two ingredients. She still needed to slice and dice and don't even get her started on the measuring. Okay. That was dramatic. It wasn't that bad, and it would take her no time at all to get caught up, but she needed to speed up the progress just a teensy bit. The younger kids couldn't be done before her. They were all in a competition. Did they know?


AJ made quick work of the caterpillar. It was sliced just right. In fact, she was quite impressed with how even her slices were. They were dead on. Perhaps she could be a chef? Nah. She already had enough of an eating problem. No need to add fuel to the fire.

One long slice of the bat tongue.... SNIFF ....and then she diced it up. By the way, the smell wasn't what she expected. Really, she didn't pick up a smell at all. Weird. It was sort of disappointing.

Next, she measured out 10ml of red wine, and was just about to move on to the prune juice when she realized that she had her measurements wrong. SO WRONG. She had almost mixed the two measurements up. For all she knew she would be as ancient as the professor. Fixing the measurements just right, she ended up with 100ml of red wine, and 10ml of prune juice.

Let's get this potion brewing!!