7.9 - Fluff and Expand
There were quite a few reagents that Theo had never completed his experimentation phase with. Most of the time, it was a matter of him finding what he needed from a specific reagent and moving on. Other times, it was a property of that ingredient that didn't seem all too useful. Perhaps it wasn't the best use of his time, but the alchemist felt the urge to select at least two of these reagents and create a potion from an unused property.
"Which one are we picking?" Salire asked, rubbing her hands together. She looked over an assortment of ingredients with hunger in her eyes.
I feel I wanted to investigate the pitch property from the Dongra Blooms. He had already decided on that one, but there were many other reagents he could pick from to either discover new properties or experiment with one he hadn't used before. This, of course, came at great cost to their current production strategy. They would need to leave two stills empty so they could experiment. Taking the experiment to the giant metal dome wasn't preferable, but he would do it if they couldn't clear away at least two.
"We can always mess with that deadly flower," Theo said. Of course it wasn't on the table right now.
"Are you talking about Deathbloom or Night’s End?" Salire asked.
"That was mainly a joke," Theo said, rubbing his chin. He remembered extracting the Venom property from the deadly flower. If he could avoid it, he never wanted to do it again. Instead, he plucked a small piece of cotton from the table. It was sand-colored and had a slightly gritty texture, as it hadn't been processed into fiber. “We haven't discovered the third or fourth property on Kahari cotton. How about we do that?”
“I was hoping for something more exciting,” Salire grumbled.
“You’re confusing excitement with death.”
Theo hummed to himself as he thought. They had already discovered all the uses for the Deathbloom reagent, so there was no point working with that. He had no desire to work with the Night's End flower, so the cotton only made sense. As he searched back through his memories, he realized that not only did it have a hidden third and fourth property, but they hadn't tested the second property, Flutter.