Tentatively, she walked through the hedge maze. Eyes darting about, waiting for something, anything to jump out at her. The fact that nothing had yet to emerge from the bushes didn't ease her mind, but she was slightly distracted by the pale light in front of her.
The closer she got, the easier it was for her to distinguish the item. A table. Her eyes scanned the clearing, settling on the table when she reached it. No way out of the clearing, but she didn't allow her mind to focus on that right now.
She glanced sceptically at the potions sitting on the table, a small frown crossing her features as she picked up the parchment and read it. Then reread it again. Hm. This could go really good or really bad. Sure, she was good in potions, but that didn't make her feel any more confident in picking the correct potion.
Reading the parchment again, eyes flicking past the table to the tiny door, she gazed at it for a long moment, musing over how she would do this. The first logical thing to do was test the potions on someone else. Her eyes flicked around the clearing.
Nope. No guinea pigs.
Guess that meant she would have to test the potions out in other ways. Trading the parchment for the first potion on the right, she opened the bottle and held it up at eye level. Testing to see if the potion was emitting any kind of steam. Then she carefully sniffed it to see if the potion had a distinctive scent that would give her any hint as to the kind of potion it was. The woman let one drop fall on the table. Basically, she was trying to find any distinguishing characteristics about the potion in the orange bottle.
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