Linda went to the professors desk and took two of the vials they would use. Once she was back at her desk she took a good look at the board. She knew if she didn't follow those instructions properly she would be in for it. She looked at the ingredients.

Ingredients:
Water (200mL)- potion base
Salt (6 g)- emits light
Billywig stings, dried, powdered (2)- excitation
Essence of firefly (3 drops)- aids in the production of light

She was extreamly interested in the Billywig stings; they seemed to have "a life of their own". She then looked at the instructions on the board again:

Instructions:
*Set water to boil and add salt, stirring clockwise until dissolved
*Powder billywig stings and add to boiling salt water, stir counter-clockwise 12 times, then clockwise twice and repeat six times
*Carefully add essence of firefly, one drop at a time, stirring 6 times counter-clockwise then clockwise twice in between each addition
*Reduce flame and simmer for 20 min before allowing potion to cool
*Carefully ladle potion into appropriately sized vessels

Linda took out her required potion and measured the 200 ml of water carefully. She then emptied it into her cauldron and set it on tht table. Linda then set a small fire under it and turned up the heat slighty to boil it faster and re-read the next line of instructions:


add salt, stirring clockwise until dissolved

She then noticed that it had begun to boil and instictively lowered the tempreture slighty so that it was still boiling but not too much.Then she added salt. Linda picked up her ladle and dipped it into the water then started stiring clockwise, concentrating so that she would not forget which direction. The salt finally began to disolve and Linda put her ladle down to read the next instrution.

*Powder billywig stings and add to boiling salt water, stir counter-clockwise 12 times, then clockwise twice and repeat six times

Linda put the stings into her motar and began to grind it slowly. She ended up with a fine powder which she added to her salted water. She read the instructions for the stirring an took a deep breath. Linda counted as she stirred by placing her finger on a point of the cauldron to remind her where she started. She stirred counter-clockwise 12 times then she stopped and stirred 2 times in the other direction: clock-wise. She wrote on a sheet of parchment the number one and began the stirring again; only this time ending by writing "2". Linda went on like this until she got to 6 and placed her ladle beside her. She read the next line.

*Carefully add essence of firefly, one drop at a time, stirring 6 times counter-clockwise then clockwise twice in between each addition

Linda picked up her bottle of Firefly essence and added a drop. Using the method she used for the stings she added 3 drops stirring 6 times counter-clockwise then twice clockwise once more. She wasn't sure if she should stir again at the end but read "in between each addition" and decided against it. She looked at the board once more:

*Reduce flame and simmer for 20 min before allowing potion to cool

Linda did as she should and lowered the tempreture. She then went to wash her hands and equipment she wouldn't need after that and packed up all her ingredents.

The potion looked passable, though Linda wasn't sure if it really was since the professor hadn't said anything about how it would look but she decided that she had followed the instuctions to her best ability. She threw out the piece of scrap parchment she used for counting and started copying notes of the board.

Not very long after the potion was simmered for long enough and Linda took it of her congured fire and put the fire out. She still hadn't finished with the notes so she continued until she was fairly sure that it was cooled. Linda ladled some of her potion into the two vials and stopperd them. She took them to the professors desk thinking it the right thing to do.