 Potions Activity #2 steps 10-11 ½ EagleBrain ♥ Creeperdoodle ♥ Raven Dor ♥ Berry ♥ ½ Team House Elf
Zeke was ITCHING to see how his Un-Felix Un-Felicis potion was going. Throughout the week, he had made a number of stops to the potions laboratory just to check on his work. Each time he made sure to sign in with his name, the date and the hour of entrance. Needless to say, he was accumulating quite the time sheet. The fire beneath his cauldron stayed on high the whole time, and from what he could see nobody had tampered with his brew. GOOOD. Or else he'd make them pay... ahem.
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On this particular day, a week after he started his potion, Zeke re-entered the lab and signed himself in, AGAIN. With his gloves and goggles on, he helped himself to one of the spare working robes and set about completing the next phase of his potion.
Taking one of the perfect mussel shells from the ingredients basket at the front, Zeke returned it to his work station and set about cleaning it. It took some work. He started by scrubbing away at the moss on the surface of the shell, and he did this until he was able to clean off the majority of it. It was NICE to be able to do things by hand, but he knew it wouldn't be as well done if he didn't use magic, and so once he was certain he could clean off no more with the small brush from his kit, he took to his wand. "Scourgify." He turned the mussel shell in his hand, repeating the spell to clean each and every side of it. "Scourgify... scourgify." The shell was shiny and black, beautiful and truly perfect. He even washed it off with water, just to be sure it was clean clean.
Using the tip of his silver blade knife, Zeke wedged it between the shells lips, and carefully pried it open to reveal the mussel within. He first removed the mussel flesh, and then cleaned the inside as well. Clean clean cleaaannn. Everything had to be SUPER clean. And because he had been following the instructions to the letter, he added it to his cauldron and peered inside. One week of waiting seemed awful, but now he'd have to wait a whole moon cycle. A WHOLE CYCLE!!!.......... Ugh.
Putting out the fire, Zeke hung around long enough to watch his cauldron some more, and update his notes, making small annotations in the margins with times and dates and ticking off the steps completed.
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