Chapter 197
Amanda wakes me up from my bed in the guest room next to hers before the sun is even up the next morning, leaving me to activate my Priestess Robes to avoid being dragged out of the room naked.
"It’s alchemy day! Do you know how to make Celestial Insight Pills? I really want to make them today, but I haven’t succeeded yet."
"In fact, I do know them. How about we both make them today, the lingering energy in the air has been pushing me towards another string of breakthroughs, so I’ll need some by the end of the week." I tell the excitable royal.
Once we get settled in for our concoction, she is properly focused though. I spent half an hour explaining the tricks and techniques to creating the pills successfully as well as I could, and now we’re both on our way to a passable batch of pills.
I notice at the end that her purification step is still lacking, she succeeds with a purity over 80 percent, but I’m certain she can do better. Towards that end, I delay finishing mine until she has retrieved hers from the cauldron.
"Watch what I do here, feel how I pull all the impurities away before burning them and then slowly pull anything that is left away before the pills solidify? That’s the step you missed by forming them in the ashes."
My pills done, I pull them from the cauldron and Amanda sighs. "You’re so good at that. I’ve been trying for years and I haven’t mastered the technique."
"You’ve got this, it’s just a matter of persistence. I had a very good teacher to get to where I am. But it’s lunch time now, should we go down and eat, or ask for something brought up?"
"We should go down. I want to know what you got for big sister Paula." she says with determination. I hope Paula can find a good explanation, because I’m not ruining this moment.