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Old 10-30-2021, 10:33 PM   #77 (permalink)
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Violet was anxiously awaiting the end of seven minutes; she kept looking from her potion to the classroom clock and then back again, not wanting to miss anything.

She's heated the cow milk in her beaker for 3 minutes, added to a cauldron half full of water, cooked that on low while she chopped a gram of fluxweed (oh how she wished she'd been able to go out under a full moon and harvest it!) and then added the fluxweed to her cauldron, then stirred it exactly 7 times clockwise. Rubbing the very soft dog fur between her fingers, she'd sprinkled it in exactly ten seconds later and been pleased to see her potion turn a mossy green.

Now it was just a matter of waiting and watching (and not missing the right moment). Boy, they were right about this potion being complicated--and this wasn't even the complete Wolfsbane fomula! But Violet was happy to be working on a really challenging potion; she felt it exercised her skills.

It was a pity the potion was so complicated and expensive to make, which made it scarce to come by. She felt sorry for all the people who'd become werewolves, not through any fault of their own, but just from sheer bad luck. She wondered if there was some way to make a less complicated and expensive potion to control the werewolf transformation. Maybe even one that used less toxic ingredients than aconite, which she'd heard was hard on the health of the people who had to take it. Maybe someday, when she knew more, she'd work on that...
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