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Post by Loren Hayes on Jan 8, 2007 14:50:34 GMT
Loren heard Andie talking to her, and still having found no where to clean the slime off her hands, retired to wiping them on her robes with a grimace. She glanced at her potion and decided it could look after itself.
'Missing some things?' She echoed as she reached Andie. For a few moments she looked from the board to Andie's ingredients, checking them off mentally. 'Lets see... well you'll definitely need doxy eggs.' She stated. Her wand was still stirring her potion for her, and so Loren walked over to the supply cupboard and began to load her arms with that was needed. 'Mandrake root? You need that... did you say tubeworms? Where are they? Oh, found them... and you'll need wormwood for the last stage.'
Loren balanced them all precariously in her arms and came back over to Andie, gently placing them next to her other ingredients. 'Okay, do you remember to stir five time clockwise and ten time counterclockwise after each one is added?' Loren knew Andie could do it fine by herself, but she had always had the habit of trying to take control of everything.
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Post by rileybabe on Jan 10, 2007 19:41:00 GMT
Andie smiled as she took the ingredients from Loren. "Thanks Loren. And yes, I remember." she assured her friend and turning back to her own cauldron, she twisted her long red hair back into a messy bun and began to work on the potion.
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Post by Rakki Gravestone on Jan 10, 2007 20:51:20 GMT
Rakki was hopelessly lost. She tried to keep up with what Loren and Professor Black were saying but after the second question, she gave up. When the list of ingredients were on the board, she wasted no time in copying them down. After doing so, Rakki combed through the list once more, raising her eyebrow at the doxy eggs. What, were they using eggs from prostitutes?* She chuckled at the thought.
And thus her remarkable memory kicked in. Twitching, Rakki poked Amanda's arm. "Now that my brain decided to work for a minute," She said in a hushed tone, as to not attract attention. "No, I don't like him. When a professor knows your face and name, you've no choice but to go to class or he'll reprimend you in the halls or whenever he sees you."
*Doxy = slang for prostitue
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Post by pixie on Jan 10, 2007 21:08:20 GMT
Amanda glared at her friend. She didn't like to be interrupted when she was working and Rakki had an extremely annoying habit of 'forgetting' (aka ignoring that fact.) "Rakks, unless it's of the utmost importance, I really have no interest. We'll discuss it after class." she muttered as she turned back to her cauldron.
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Post by Loren Hayes on Jan 10, 2007 21:28:57 GMT
By now Loren had just finished stirring in the powdered moonstone and was admiring the shimmering spectral mist that was rising slowly from her cauldron in a perfect coil. The pretty effect soon ended however when she tossed in the tubeworms, the mist clearing to be replaced by the smell of fresh toast. It was nice, but the sickly yellow the potion had turned was enough to put even Loren off her appetite.
As she began to stir, she caught a snippet of the conversation occurring between Rakki and Amanda. Loren smiled, glancing at Professor Black with a considerate expression. She thought it sweet that Rakki - or perhaps even Amanda - should be drawn to the man. He was very pleasing to be around, but Loren could not make up her mind whether she found him fanciable or not...
Loren giggled to herself, but a little louder than she had intended.
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Post by pixie on Jan 10, 2007 22:16:41 GMT
Amanda's head snapped up as she heard a giggle. Looking around, her eyes fell on the culprit. It was Loren. The older girl was stirring her cauldron with an amused look on her face. "What's so funny?" Amanda mouthed to Loren.
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Post by Rakki Gravestone on Jan 11, 2007 0:03:43 GMT
Rakki grumbled and looked pitifully down at the ingredients. She lacked many of the ingredients (Who carried most of this stuff on their person anyways?) and she didn't want to bother Ms. Crabby Pants again. What was something she could...
A light went off in her head as she fetched a spare scrap of parchment from her bag and placed it on the table. Plucking the feather from the inkwell, Rakki began to write.
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Post by Loren Hayes on Jan 12, 2007 0:05:43 GMT
Loren gave Amanda a sagely smile. 'Oh nothing,' She whispered back, giving a quick wink. Her potion suddenly began to hiss gently, indicating it was time to finally add the wormwood. 'So, I heard you were going to stay with Professor Black over to holidays,' She stated as she dropped in the wormwood, squinting through the sudden thick fumes. 'What's the story behind that?'
Loren noticed Rakki writing something down and peered over nosily, curious as to what she was doing...
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Post by Rakki Gravestone on Jan 12, 2007 3:31:38 GMT
At first Rakki was too caught up in the short drabble she was writing and didn't notice peeping eyes but after a while, the feeling that she was being watched dawned on her and she paused in her writing to look up.
She looked over in the direction the Looking At You beams were coming from and saw Loren looking at her. Rakki blinked before she rubbed the back of her head and gave her a little smile. Rakki glanced over in Professor Black's direction before going back to her writing.
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Post by Loren Hayes on Jan 12, 2007 15:01:08 GMT
Loren smirked to herself, amused by Rakki's paranoia.
There was a gently popping suddenly and Loren noticed that her potion was done. A collection of flagons sat of Professor Black's desk, and pulling her wand from the thick potion, Loren summoned one over and dipped it into the bright purple liquid, filling it to the brim before corking it. 'One invigoration draught, professor...' Loren said proudly as she walked up to him and held it out for him to accept.
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Post by Rakki Gravestone on Jan 14, 2007 20:13:37 GMT
Rakki smiled as she finished up her short story. It was something that she was thinking about the other night and, well, the Plot Bunny decided to strike in the middle of Potions. Seeing how she wouldn't be able to pay her potions any attention, she gave in to the Plot Bunny! Ohoho! Professor Black would have to understand! Feeling accomplished, Rakki looked over her minuscule writing for any mistakes.
Sahara blinked as Kristopher slipped a folded piece of paper on her desk as he walked by. Picking it up, she gave the vampire a confused look before unfolding it. In elegant script, it read:
Roses are red, violets are blue, sugar is sweet, and so are you
Raising an eyebrow, she looked back at him. Kris only smiled at her. She blinked dumbly back at him before a light clicked on. Smiling back, she took her pencil and started writing on the note. Satisfied, she got up and went to the teacher's desk, secretly placing the note on Kris' desk.
Now it was Kris' turn to raise an eyebrow. Sahara gave him a smirk as she went back to her desk. Unfolding the paper, he read the almost microscopic handwriting and laughed.
However, the roses have wilted, the violets are dead, the sugar bowl is empty, and so is your head.
Perfect! Rakki placed the parchment off to the side before fishing another piece out of her bag and started writing yet again.
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Post by Caleb Black on Jan 16, 2007 1:27:55 GMT
Caleb took the flask that Loren had given him. It looked all right, but would it pass the test? Caleb summoned a mouse and set it on his desk. "This will tell us." Caleb said and the mouse was motionless. He gave it some of the potion and watched as the mouse became very energetic. "Well done Loren! Ten points to Ravenclaw." and he started walking around the room. He noticed his newest student Rakki writing on a piece of parchment and walked up behind her and said with a whisper, "Nice potion."
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Post by pixie on Jan 16, 2007 2:13:08 GMT
Amanda snickered quietly behind her hand as her friend was caught yet again, writing something that was not related to class. She never got tired of watching Rakki get in trouble. In fact, it was usually the highlight of her day!
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Post by Loren Hayes on Jan 16, 2007 20:05:07 GMT
Loren gave Professor Black an accomplished smile. 'Thank you, sir,' She said, walking away back to her cauldron to begin to clean up any split ingredients and to put out her fire. Amanda was giggling and Loren looked to see Professor Black had discovered Rakki was not doing what she was meant to.
Magicking her various personal items back into her bag, Loren sat down and caught Professor Black's attention. 'What should I do now?' She asked.
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Post by Rakki Gravestone on Jan 16, 2007 20:29:07 GMT
It took practically all of Rakki's self-restraint to keep from screaming too loudly when Professor Black whispered in her ear. However, since so much self-restraint went into stopping her from screaming, there was little to stop her from jumping out of her skin.
Rakki crashed into Amanda (in an attempt to get away from the suddenly appearing out of nowhere professor), bounced off her while rambling out apologies, then scuttled back into Amanda yet again because of the professor.
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