Her garlic was finely minced and ready to be added. At the five minute mark, she scraped her garlic into the cauldron and began mixing with her wooden spoon. It was gross looking, just like Professor Noble had mentioned. The look was all wrong, so she knew she must be doing it right.

She kept stirring, her arm starting to ache, but still stirring. Round and round her wooden spoon went in the cauldron until she was about to give up and see if she had done something wrong after all. However, just at the point when she wanted to give up, it changed. Brown granules were forming before her eyes. Once all of it had turned, she switched off the heat and left it to cool.

Her granules didn’t smell bad at all and she was curious how the others smelled. She wondered how nail clippings could make such a difference. Her curiosity got the better of her and she lifted her mask once more and took a bit whiff of the cauldron next to her. “Oh, yuck!” Emmalyn quickly pulled her mask back over her face, stomach turning, and moved back to her cauldron. Her mask would remain on for the rest of the class.

She took a few more notes as she waited to see if Professor Myers had anything else to add. Her granules would be perfect to add to her little garden plot she had started in the fall. Some sort of creature had eaten all of her pumpkins before she was able to carve one or make a pumpkin pie. She didn’t want the same fate for any of the spring vegetables she had recently planted.

Then she thought of something “Professor Noble, sir, are you able to use more than one person's toenails? Like the toenails of an entire family? I know you said anyone that had toenails in the potion would be immune to the smell, but I wasn't sure if there was a limit. ” That would come in handy if more than one person was using a garden.