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More stirring, and this time for three minutes.
Placing the wooden stirrer into her cauldron, Esme started stirring slooooowly in a clockwise direction. As she worked she looked at the clock. One stir every ten seconds seemed like a good method to her, and she silently kept a countdown in her head. 1... 2... 3... 4... 5... 6... 7... 8... 9... 10... Stir and repeat. If she was in a better mood, she would have looked up to see how her friends were doing, but as it was she kept her eyes glued on either her cauldron or the clock.
At least her hand shaking was getting better. Either that, or she was getting used to it. By this point she was practically ignoring it.
Once the three minutes were up, Esme set about cleaning her workstation up a little. Ignoring the bird eyes that she could feel boring into her soul, she cleaned all of her equipment and gave her desk a good Scourgifying even though it would probably get dirty again. Not only was this a nice waste of time but it also was rather therapeutic. A win win situation as far as she was concerned.
"Thank Merlin!" Esme said softly to herself as the ten minutes had passed.
SPOILER!!: Esme's Notes ANIMAL WHISPERER POTION
Ingredients
6 cups water
15 fresh Belladonna leaves
3 dried Fluxweed sprigs, roughly crushed in mortar and pestle (picked during a full moon, and dried over one week)
0.5mL Wormwood essence
2Tbsp Lacewing flies
1tsp honey
1tsp water
0.1mL Boomslang venom
1 crushed Unicorn Horn
1 cup of Armadillo Bile
15g Ginger, crushed
1 Shrivelfig, scooped out seeds
1 measure of your animal
Method
1. Add 6 cups of water to you cauldron, and light a small flame. Simmer the water for 5 minutes to slowly heat to an appropriate temperature
2. Pluck the 15 leaves of Belladonna from the sprigs, will need approximately 2 sprigs, and add them to the cauldron once five minutes is up
3. Gather the 3 sprigs of dried Fluxweed, and roughly crush in mortar and pestle. Only enough to increase the surface area, then add to the cauldron
4. Simmer for a further 3 minutes
5. Stir with a wooden stirrer, three times, clockwise
6. Measure, with a 1ml syringe, your Wormwood essence, and add to the cauldron.
7. Measure 0.1mL Boomslang venom in a different syringe and place to the side for a moment
8. Clean the mortar and pestle, add one unicorn horn, and crush it to a fine powder, then add the Boomslang venom. Mix together (it will not make a paste) and set aside for three minutes, then add to the cauldron.
9. Simmer the cauldron for three minutes, then stir three times, clockwise
10. Clean the mortar and pestle, and add two tablespoons of Lacewing flies, one teaspoon of honey, and one teaspoon of water, and crush until it makes a smooth paste. Carefully add the paste to the cauldron
11. Stir slowly for three minutes, clockwise, and then leave the potion to simmer for ten minutes.
12. Add one measure of your animal’s fur or, if a toad, a gentle scraping from head, down the body with your metal stirrer, then stir three times into the cauldron. Only two individual hairs needed for a rat or a cat, and for an owl, cut the tip of one feather, OR stroke your owl until a small feather separates from the owl (do NOT pluck the feather). Stir with wooden stirrer three times clockwise, and leave for six minutes to simmer.
13. Scoop out the liquid into your phials and discard the stewed ingredients.
14. Drink one 10ml phial of potion and let the potion set in until you start to sense your animal speaking to you.
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