 #3 ½ EagleBrain ♥ Creeperdoodle ♥ Raven Dor ♥ Berry ♥ ½ Team House Elf
Slicing his caterpillar carefully while he had to wait, Zeke checked to make sure that his knife skills were as good as they had been over the summer, checking for consistency with his slug slices. Yes. Yes... yes.... good. They looked in order. Following that, he prepared his bat tongue, dicing it as per the instructions. Not too small but not too big either, and judging by the size it had been when Newton had demonstrated, he was pretty much right, if not exactly the same. It was an interesting thing though, slicing something that was already technically speaking, quite small. But it was done.
When his time signalled that the eight minutes was up, Zeke extinguished the flame beneath his cauldron, effectively removing it from the heat source. And carefully - so as not to splash - Zeke added 2 grams of the caterpillar slices (carefully measures) followed by the diced bat tongue. Setting a timer to guide him, Zeke continued to stir the potion in a clockwise fashion.
Stirring.
It wasn't his favourite thing, but it was oddly soothing. It didn't require much thinking, and so for the most part of the five minutes he was able to focus on nothing other than his breaking and his stirring... not thinking at all. He didn't even realise until the timer signalled the five minutes was up, that the potion had changed colour to a creamy shade of green. How... delightful. It looked oddly healthy in a way.
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