Just like her potion, Diane appeared to be concealed from sight during the final steps of the plan and brewing process. It was not possible to know what she had been doing except to look at the notes of her Potions Journal. Two extra ingredients had been added: hot water (no specification in quantity) and wormwood. It read like this:
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Preparation
-Take halfe a handfull of crystallized sodium, 2 handfuls powdered Dark Hellebore, as much wood sorrel. Brewing Process Steps 1 to 4.
-Make a matress of crushed whiteflies and aphids in a different container and heat until you get an even, bubbling black liquid. Add the previous mixture in a shower while stirring in counterclockwise motions. Add secretion from glands Jadera Haematoloma by crushing them in your first (wearing protective gloves.) By the time you add the 6 lygus bugs and 2 western flower thrips, you should find its addition to set them on fire upon touch, and you may hear a faint screeching sound. Brewing Process Step 1.
-Take 3 pints of running water. Slowly add to the mix, boyling it in three waters with closed lid so half of it evaporates. Add an ashwinder egg. There should happen that a crack or hole is made on its side in boiling water. Then pour the liquor into a basin coated in lemmon juice and 1/2 pint of Lithium. Stir clockwise until you hear it hiss, return to cauldron. Brewing Process Step 2 to 4.
-Steeping Magnetite take 5 minutes in boyling water, in which time constant eight patterns are drawn in stirring. The Iron-Nickel meteorite stone must rest motionless through steeping in a different container. Remove the Magnetite at the same time you add 2 spoonfuls of Iron-Nickle liquid dust: you may observe the dark brilliant stones will draw an eight following the Magnetite design. Brewing Process Step 3.
-Five spoonfulls of Cilantro juice are added to the mix with 1/4 a pint of Flobberworm mucus; then season it with nightshade essence to your liking. The potion will turn from a silvery blue to dark red by now, the whole ginger root will discompose short after. Brewing Process Steps 3 and 4.
-Cool to environment temperature or colder. (Note: Freeze the exterior of the cauldron for this purpose.)
- Take a quarter of a pound of wormwood, blanch them and pound them thrice, straining them to the other liquor. Sip the Jadera Sanguinolenta tied to a string once. The brew must turn bright red, white and red again. Brewing Process Step 4.
-The steam of the potion will draw the figure of a white line of light in formation; one by one carefully add enough legs from female mosquitoes (not necessarily all 11 of them) to complete a full circle. Then add a handfull of powdered Bloodroot and watch the line retreat to the potion. Brewing Process Final Steps.
Note that the brew will turn greyish. At that point is apt for consumption. It's odorless, though possibly has a foul taste.
Right now a white line of fumes from the potion was twisting a circle as if it fought to go somewhere else but was forced down that path - she did not aid it with mosquito legs, just observed, against her own instructions -, before Diane added something else and the white line recoiled back at the potion at once, losing immediately its previous glow.
It was a good thing she had not add the whole whiteflies. Had she known magic had such capricious nature when dealt directly with it, the wings would have allowed it to
fly away. Its power had a wild, indomitable quality. Magic, like the person its imprinted in, was notably human-like.