After spending way longer than necessary to comfort the crying futa alchemist, we eventually completed our gathering of the herbs without running into any other problems.
Surprisingly, not even bandits showed up to disturb us and here I was being fully prepared to deal with them.
Escorting her back to her shop, she brought me to the back of her shop, telling me that she wanted to teach me some alchemy no matter what.
Seeing that I was indeed interested in learning alchemy anyway, I decided to take her up on the offer.
I realised the back of her shop functioned as her workshop with all the stashes of ingredients stacked neatly on shelves and three cauldrons placed side by side in the centre of the room.
Two of the cauldrons already had something inside them that she most likely was going to use later on for her potion making, so we went to the last cauldron that was located on the far right.