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But back to the pressing matters the brewing. It was time to experiment. We managed to isolate 7 recipes from all this pile of information, 4, to hide the smell, 3 to reveal. The difference was in the
side effects and in the complexity of preparation. We decided to start with some more harmless
ones, so I made a list of herbs to collect in the fields and Hannah and doc Evans went to explore
mother natures gifts. Obviously because they were the cleverest ones.
We were now in the kitchen, I was perched on a stool and the twins and Lena were acting as my
hands and feet while I commanded. I would say which pot I would need, which tools, how much
water to which pot, stuff like that, and they would place everything on the kitchen table in front of
- me. The hardest part in all this was that I would actually need to move quite a lot, as doc Evans said,
it was more probable to work if I were the one to do the actual work, my hands needed to touch the
herbs, do the mixing and all. He really hoped that a tiny bit of my powers would wake up and it
would all work. I didn’t have his confidence, but I hoped for the best.
Doc Evans and Hannah were back in a couple of hours and we began our experimenting. It was
awkward. The twins were acting like my crutches, supporting my elbows and lower back, trying to
ease my movements but not bother the process. By the time we finished with only one portion of
some gooey looking liquid, I was more exhausted then I’ve been in years. My back hurt, my bad leg
was screaming, I was sweaty from being near the stove for so long, but I hoped it worked. We made
a simple masking lotion (according to what the book said), that would work for about 15 minutes.
The volunteer was chosen, to no one’s surprise it was Simon, the always courageous one, and we
went outside.
Looking around I saw that everyone was nervous. They all wanted it to work. I wanted it to work. It
would mean, that we had a real chance to eliminate some danger heading our way. Silently I prayed
for it to work.
So, there we were, standing in our back yard, Simon in the middle, surrounded by family, friends
and me.
“So, uhm…” I started unsurely, “What now?”
“I think you need to smear the lotion on him.” said doc Evans.
“What? Me? Can’t he do it himself?” I was confused, wasn’t it enough for the lotion to be made by
me?
“Honestly, I don’t know how it works, let’s experiment.” doc rubbed the back of his neck unsurely.
“Oh… Ok…” I mumbled and took the jar with said lotion. Simon approached me with a goofy grin.
“Hey! I knew it the moment you threw an apple in the direction of my ass that we would be THAT close someday!” Everyone laughed, except for Nick, but he didn’t say a word. I also laughed, but quite nervously, might I say.
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“Simon, you’re a good guy, but I would rather hit you with my cane again… Only for the greater good, only for that…” and with that I squeezed my eyes shut and plopped a generous amount of goo
in his bare chest.
“Hey! I THINK I HAVE SOME IN MY EYE!” Screamed a very distressed Simon, doc only snickered
“Boy, calm down and stop whining like a pansy.”
“Oooooh, old man knows the wooooords” Simon taunted in reply. Doc’s reaction was only a slight
eye–roll.
“Yeah, yeah, not that old. Now c’mon, smear it all over and let’s see if it works.”
Simon’s face scrunched in disgust, but he obeyed and rubbed he lotion in. Weirdly, it dissolved instantly, but according to slightly disappointed faces around me, they could still smell him just
fine.
“Soooo? Did it work?” Asked an excited Simon?
“I don’t think so…” I said sadly. His face fell when he realised that no one is going to argue with me.
“Well damn…” was his calm reply. “Now I need a shower…”
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