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Tilly watched her pour, and smiled encouragingly as she noticed her overfilling the beaker. ”Yeah, it’s perfect!” She said sweetly. When Katie turned her attention to the butterfly wings, she made good use of all the slight of hand her dad had taught her as a kid, and discreetly dumped a bit of the base back into its botte, so that it was now filled to the correct point.

She should have been more concerned with the butterfly wings. They required a delicate hand, and Katie seemed a bit clumsier than most. She turned her attention back to the pile of wings, already scattered all over. She sighed compulsively, than realized that it probably sounded incredibly passive-aggressive.
”Oh, no, it’s okay, Katie. Don’t psych yourself out, we’re just making a potion.” She smiled reassuringly, brushing it off. She waved her hand, and they swirled on a small gust of wind, which laid them out on the table before her. She sorted a few that had been ruined, and used an old card trick of dad’s to separate them from the good ones without letting Katie see. ”See? They’re all fine. No harm done.” She lied, stuffing the ruined ones into her pocket as she set them gently back into the case.

”Yes, now we just wait.” She said. She sat there for maybe five, ten seconds, staring intently at the vial as it warmed, beginning, very slowly, to change to a faint blue hue. ”Wow, okay, this was dumb of me. Let’s move on to the next ingredient while we wait.” She said, reaching into the suitcase.

”Do you want this potion to be really cool, or marginally safe?” She asked over her shoulder.
 

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Katie offered a small smile as Tilly reassured her things were fine. It was a relief to know that things were still fine, even after a few minor mistakes. Of course, Katie was completely oblivious to the slight of hand Tilly was doing to actually correct said mistakes.

Finally Katie joined Tilly in waiting, and waiting, and waiting. It couldn't have been more the a couple seconds, but time just seemed to creep by. Then Tilly piped up, deciding to jump into the next ingredient, rather then just waiting.

"Oh.. Umm.. Lets make it really cool!" Katie said. Even if something went wrong, she was confident she could heal any injuries, and Tilly seemed to know what she was doing, so surely she wouldn't let Katie do something that was too unsafe.
 

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Tilly’s face spread into a wicked grin when Katie decided.
”I like the way you think.” She said, using a pair of tongs to pick up a tiny vial. of what appeared to be pure flames. ”The second ingredient determines the power of the potion. It helps to have something associated with your desired effect, but the really important part is just how much raw magical energy is stored up in the ingredient. This- She said, wiggling the bottle just a little. ”-is a little bit of Acheronian water. Supposedly it’s from the actual river Acheron.” She said, undoing the stopper magically. Flames spewed out of the stopper, licking the edge of her goggles. Thankfully, she’d insulated them properly with magic, so that lens just fogged up. ”I guess that means Hades is real, so I have to wonder if he’s like the one in Hadestown or more like the Disney version.”

”Here, it shouldn’t splash on you, but take the tongs just in case. Be very, very careful.” She said, offering the tongs and the vial to Katie. Once Katie took it, she set up the next vial, attaching a small tube so that as the fiery water boiled (How do you boil fire?) it would travel through the tube and into their boiling flask, where the substances mixed. ”Okay, go ahead and add it!” She said encouragingly, glancing at their butterfly wing. The wing had dissolved, and the mixture was now a steely gray.

”Oh, hey, the butterfly wing is done. Go ahead and add that to the boiling flask. Use the tongs, you don’t wanna burn your fingers.” She said, reaching down to the case for their final ingredient.
 

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"Woahh.." Katie said as she looked at the vial of flames. It was definitely unlike anything Katie had seen before, and after Tilly's warning, and her earlier mistakes, Katie was determined to not mess this up for a third time.

Slowly, she poured the fiery into the flask, while also making sure she didn't spill any of it. Slowly she was getting her confidence back. Giving Tilly a small nod, she set down the now empty vial, and turned her attention to the butterfly wings.

Picking it up with the tongs, Katie carefully added it to the mixture, before taking a step back as the mixture began to bubble. "Umm.. Tilly?" Katie called out, a little worried about what was happening. "Is it supposed to bubble like that?"
 

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The mixture of pure steroids and distilled butterfly wing was bubbling along nicely as the droplets of boiling flames dripped slowly into the murky mixture.
”Yeah, that’s fine. Try not to breathe too much though, the fumes can age you. That’s harmless to someone like me, but I don’t know if you have a wizardly immune system like mine.” She said nonchalantly as the last of the Acheronian water, which distilled into a murky orange substance, dribbled into the Erlenmeyer flask.

She lifted the flask and swirled it dramatically like a scientist in a cheesy 60’s movie, and then offered the bottle to Katie. ”Some of your fancier chemists will have automatic stirrers or something, but I never saw the point when you could do it manually.” She explained, setting a stopper into the top of the bottle. ”It’s insulated, so you should be safe to hold the bottom. Just shake the heck out of it. When you’re done, it should be a pale green. Oh, but don’t freak out if it turns blue.” She said, not bothering to explain that part of the experiment since it was so rare an occurrence.

She put a little funnel over the boiling flask and held it there for her. ”Once that’s done, all we have left is to cook it down, and you’ve got yourself a healing potion. Err, well, more like a healing amplifier. You know what I mean.”
 

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Katie nodded as Tilly handed her the bottle and told her to shake it. It seemed a little strange, considering up until this point everything seemed to have to be done so precisely and carefully, and now she was being told to shake it without a care.

And so, Katie began shaking the bottle, gently at first, but then much more vigorously. Until it ultimately turned a blueish color. "It.. Tilly, it turned blue! Is that good?" Katie asked as she removed the stopper and poured the bottle into the boiling flask.
 

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As she probably should have expected, the potion turned blue.

”Do… Not... Move....” Tilly hissed, freezing in place. She stared at the bottle like it was a venomous snake, coiled round har arm and poised to strike. ”This isn’t bad, but… There’s a very miniscule chance that our particular combination of ingredients forms something we didn’t intend.” She said, slowly placing a hand on the bottle, then another. ”Let go of it slowly, one hand at a time.” She instructed, waiting for Katie to release the flask.

Once she did, she’d set it gently down on the table, letting out a deep sigh of relief.

”So, bad news: We didn’t make a healing potion. Good news? We made something better.” She grinned, pulling off her gloves.

”This is a chronomatic elixir. Theoretically, it can do a bunch of wild stuff. If you drink it all, it makes you immortal, permanently set aside from the rules of time.” She said thoughtfully, her hand resting on her chin. ”That, or it traps you in a groundhog day loop forever. Same result, different method. Just a sip of it, though, can send you back five minutes into the past. Pour a bit on the ground and time will speed up. But drop it, and we’ll get thrown into the future, Samurai Jack style.”
 

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Katie stood still, clutching the bottle tightly in her hands. Just from the tone of her voice Katie could tell something was seriously wrong, and Katie was afraid that even the slightest movements could cause a disaster.

Slowly, she gently passed the bottle off to Tilly and stepped back. "I.. I don't know what happened.. I was doing what you said, and then.." Katie took a deep breath. Panicking now wouldn't help anything.

She listened intently as Tilly explained what the potion they'd made did. "So it's like a.. time control potion?" she asked, beginning to understand why Tilly had been so worried when she'd made it.
 
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