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Hurrying back to his cauldron, he peered inside, relieved to see it was just barely simmering. Even more so that it wasn't boiling. Plopping all the ingredients onto the table top, he grabbed the fresh alihotsy leaves and measured out five grams... more or less. With the water now simmering properly, he didn't want to waste too much time in measuring in case time was a factor with the whole water simmer thing.
Let it simmer in the water for...
"Twenty minutes?" he muttered to himself, face scrunching up into dislike. More waiting. Nevertheless, it was probably a good thing. Gave him more time to prepare the other ingredients, like the blackboard said. Two dried billywig stings was easy enough. Didn't have to do anything to them. Pinch of powdered erumpent tongue. Gross, but simple. Two drops of leech juice, he got that ready. Another simple task. Five ml of armadillo bile was probably the toughest on the list. This whole measuring stuff wasn't his forte.
However, after preparing the other ingredients, he sat in his seat and stared at his cauldron with a relatively neutral look... realizing he never really did start timing the whole simmering process. HOW LONG HAS IT BEEN!? Merlin's soggy socks! He was not going to be re-doing it for a THIRD time. Nobody had time for that.
Throwing his hands up and scowling, he fished out the traces of the wet alihotsy leaves, at least wanting to get THAT step right. Nothing but water in THIS cauldron. The boiling part he had no issue with, considering it was probably the easiest step in the process. Just turn up the flame a bit.
Or a lot.
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