"Excelsior? I've met him... he's terrific. " She smiled. "It's a pleasure to meet you, Monica. I'm not actually doing a full potion today, I'm laying the groundwork for one... I'm doing an herbal distillation of a microsorum pteropus-- a java lance fern-- and then I'll be doing the same thing over there-- she nods to her alembic - for a distillation of marsh slug mucus."