Ingredients

Ning walked up to the old lady Gaani, standing next to her and looking down on the various ingredients she had laid in front of her.

He knew the name of all of the ingredients, except for the ones that had been completely peeled, unshelled, or made powder off.

For those, he could have to use his sense of touch, smell, and maybe even a little taste sometimes.

Ning looked at the bone fragments on the platter of ingredients and gave a disapproving look, but the old woman Gaani didn't see it, and neither did Ning want her to.

"To know how to make potions, you need to know ingredients first," the old woman said.

Ning certainly didn't need much help in understanding the ingredients, but he let the woman explain anyway.

"A portion, as you have seen before, is made by boiling these ingredients. There is no exact recipe for the potions aside from the measurement of these very ingredients," the old woman said.