"Today we will be making a wound-cleaning potion. I hope you all brought your cauldrons. Now, I've set out all of the ingredients you'll need on this front table," she gestured to a large wooden table in front of the window. "Now, take out your cauldrons and follow these directions," she wrote the recipe in orange cursive and left it hanging, cloud-like, in the air:

"3 palm-sized handfuls of dried nettles
1 rattlesnake rattle
2 rat tails
1/2 peeled shrivelfig
20 black beetle eyes
teaspoon powdered moonstone

She began to pace the room as the students mixed their potions.