Gingerly, she placed the vial into a special silk satchel, tying it closed before she brought it back upstairs to the counter for the client to come retrieve it.

Using the materials she'd gathered stores of--raw amethyst, rock salt, and mugwort--she mashed, she ground, she ensured that the potion was in the exact consistency and potency that her client desired, pouring the finished product into a vial and corking it according.