Tanu's potions

"You know how to make love potions?" Seth asked.


"And avoid them," Tanu grinned.


"What else can you make?" Seth asked.


"Potions to cure illnesses, potions to induce sleep, potions that awaken lost memories, Tanu said. It all depends on what I have to work with. The toughest part of being a potion master is collecting ingredients. Only magical ingredients yield magical results. I study cause and effect, and I benefit from the studies of many who came before me. I try to figure out how to combine different materials to achieve a desired outcome."


"Where do you get ingredients?" Kendra asked.


"The most powerful ingredients are usually by-products of magical creatures," Tanu explained. "Viola, the milch cow, is a potion master's dream. Her milk, her blood, her dung, her sweat, her tears, her saliva-they all have different magical properties. At an icy preserve in Greenland, on the coast, they get their milk from a gigantic walrus, nearly a thousand years old, one of the eldest animals on the planet. The derivatives of the walrus have different properties fromthe cow's. Along with certain similarities."


Chapter 7