 Made of Awesome | Ern-la the Best-wa | TZ's Apogee
At the exact moment the third minute had passed, Katy already had her wand in position to lower the heat from medium to low. Those were the sort of things that made her crazy. Medium and low were general terms, especially when she was adjusting with her own wand, and she wanted precision. Fire size, heat, and height were important and should be part of the description. She allowed her mind to wander since the next bit wasn't as strict about the timing.
Even still, about two minutes later, Katy pulled on her gloves again in order to add the fire seeds. Slowly. Add over time. !?!?! More lacking in precision, but she'd make the best of it. It helped her to add careful notes to her own notebook regarding the specifics of what she was trying, and she could go back later and make small tweaks to see what worked better. Did it matter if they were all added over a minute versus five minutes? She was feeling impatient at the moment, and her slowly was rather less slow than it could be. Five seeds in, though, and she was moving on.
Katy left her gloves on to add the pure rock salt, again one by one, and she felt much better about the entire process when she plunked her stirring stick into the cauldron and began to stir. Stir until it turns primrose yellow... that was a clear direction, a way to check the goodness of her brewing mid-potion. After five minutes, the whole potion went yellow, although more canary than primrose. Hm. Still yellow, though.
That yellow was covered by the strips of wiggentree bark, which Katy floated along the surface of the cauldron. They drifted there until Katy used the stirring stick to poke each one of the five strips against the wall of the cauldron. One. Two. Threeeee. Four. Five. They were a little slippery, but eventually they all were in place. Fire back up, and she watched for a boil.
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