[it is a bit too long for my habit but I hope not too boring, and Mari, can't wait to read Evirea's work
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Eonwind was writing tirelessly for hours on his desk, reading through his father notes, and also many tomes scattered all around the tiny room, they were about plant's properties, animal parts usefulness, old and modern alchemical formulas but none seemed to report a cure for the fearsome plague.
Finally he stopped writing and all the sleepless hours suddenly fell on him and he began to dream: he was wandering in the desert city of Ojaveda, none was there, the wind blew endlessly the dusty roads of the city and dark grey clouds obscured the crystal sun, he felt alone and a felling of despair began to fill his heart and mind. Suddenly a mighty wind blown on him carring a whisper "waaaarehouse... gooo... waaareeehouse". He suddenly turned but he saw none but the dust swirling around him, he slowly turned and walked to the warehouse. As he stepped in the abandoned building he heard something move and a big fat and decaying rat came out of a box hissing its wrath.
Eonwind woke up suddenly all covered by sweat, he got up almost shouting "the key, this is the key!", he took his own note quickly turning many pages. "Yes the plague's symptom: high fever, large red splotches on the skin, hallucinations, and weight loss. The elements that prevail in the fever aresurely fire... fire and earth"
He smiles as he raised from the notes. Quickly Cedrica, his little yulbar jumped on the desk shaking his tail happily, looking for his master attention. He raised his head as if looking at an imaginary orizon, giving some gentle stroke to Cedrica:
"how could I forget my father's teaching... fight fire with fire!"
He opened the ingedient closet and quickly took some component. The stove was already hot.
"First of all Cedrica we needs to marry water and earth so the earth becomes a wet and fertile womb where the fire may rest and grow"
He took some ground kingsfoil leaf and cooked it in pot filled with hot water, adding some salt and blending until the water evaporated and the ground leaf was condensed to a dense and humid pastry.
"Now we needs to extract the fire inside the disease and marry with the pure fire that lay inside the metals... blood of a diseased rat for the illness, but it is male, so we need it to couple with a female metal... copper will do!
Again he opened the closet and took two vials.
He took the first one and dropped the dense blood inside the distiller already on the stove.
He took a vial of vitriol dropping the liquid in the metal pot and slowly mixing it with copper powder, he puts it on another pot slowly heating up the solution and mixing it with ammonium salt until no trace of powder was found on the pot's bottom, only at this time he added the distilled blood and heated up until the mix was amalgamated.
While Cedrica was happily smelling the mix he took the humid pastry mixing it with the liquid and letting all heat up slowly on the stove until the mix was fully dehydrated.
"Have you seen Cedrica? The fire is resting inside the earth womb where he will grow stronger."
"All easy task are over, now we needs the stones to fly over the head"
He put the powder inside a glass tube adding a salt and he began to slowly heat up until all the powder was sublimated.
"And now the most difficult step Cedrica, as the earth and the fire are now mated we need air to completed everything: we must let the seven eagles fly!"
he mixed the sublimated powder with spirit and began to rectify over and over the liquid, slowly and tirelessly checking the stove fire for hours and hours.
He was exausted when he took the finished potion but he needed one final confirmation: he took Onilise's vial and compared it with his own.
He smiled as he could not spot any difference - and Cedrica let out a satisfied growl.
