Another dawn crept on concentrated shoulders as Alexis studied the ingredients in front of her. There she sat, almost in bewilderment, watching as a thick sap mingled with drythorn roots, causing a rustic steam to radiate from the combination. She flipped vigorously through her botany books by Yorthal Ca'za, an intellectual role model and expert in the field of alchemy. The sap gathered was a mixture of maple and Sandberry, two very different families but with a subtle chemistry that can only appear if mixed under certain pressures. Drythorn on the other hand was plentiful but difficult to extract, being one of the most poisonous bushes around. However at the root is an extraordinary chemical that is useful to help mend broken bones, even if it has a nasty illness that leads to a brutal skin irritation.
"Did I...do this right?"
She heard rumors that someone made a fruitful elixir that provides energy and mental focus in small doses, or great hallucinations in larger ones, but she saw a contradiction in the result of her experiment at hand: it shimmered with positive aroma that clearly reacted negatively to the clay plate it lay upon. To further her curiosity, it looked like airy rust. As if, red earth were set free from lungs long since collapsed. "Maybe..."
She dropped a small iron ore into the small plate, right by the substance. It startled her for a moment with a sudden breath of smoke, then a low, odd glow as the metal "soaked" up the liquid. After a moment of silence, her yellow eyes glued in anticipation, the metal vibrated a slight moment before the plate started creaking. Soon, a crack!
Picking up the metal chunk as quickly as she could, wearing special gloves she made the day before, she felt a radiant wavelength that did not feel so inclined as other destructive natures. "Ah, what the hell?" She shrugged as she placed the chunk in her free, uncovered hand. Then the feeling vanished without a trace, leaving the chunk to crumble into a pile of ash.
"I think I stumbled on a goldmine here!" Her eyes were bright, open, excited as she leaped to her feet. She needed something else to help bind, then she could extract the essence.
"Dear, we have a customer at the front door. Your father is with another customer elsewhere, can you help them?"
She giggled with her satisfied self and then put on her serious, business related face. "Yes! Absolutely!"
Time to start a new day.