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Ten minutes had never seemed longer. There were only so many different ways Brooklyn could distract herself before she found herself continually checking the time. Boredom was definitely not something she liked, and this potion seemed determined to make her have to deal with it. She just hoped it was worth it in the end. As it was, she still felt like all she was going to learn was that Tywin’s thoughts were a lot like her own. He seemed too much like her to think otherwise.
Thinking about that reminded her that she needed to collect some of Tywin’s fur, and thankfully she had remembered to slip a brush into her bag before she’d headed to class. That would be the easiest way of getting the fur, and it also would help her pass the time until the ten minutes were up. Opening the cage, she gathered Tywin up and let him curl up in her lap, taking the brush out and beginning to gently brush his fur.
Several minutes later, the Bengal started getting fidgety, so she let him go back into the cage. That seemed like a better idea than letting him go after the rat. That or ending up with scratches all over her arms, and it was easy enough to collect some fur from the brush. She tipped a few hairs into the cauldron once she’d glanced up at the clock again to notice the ten minute wait was up. Scourgifying her wooden stirrer again just to make sure it was clean, she slid that into the cauldron after the fur and stirred the potion again, three times clockwise. After that, unfortunately, she was going to have to wait again.
SPOILER!!: notes
Animal Whisperer Potion
a potion allowing the user to get a glimpse into an animal’s mind. More likely to work with a familiar rather than a common animal, but still useful either way.
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
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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