Some short stories

Ripped up paper strewn across the floor, a potion, a lost item

           

Kamila Quinn was your average person. She lived in an apartment, she owned a shop that sold genuine magic items, she had a dog and she liked listening to music while she brewed potions. Perhaps she wasn't so normal after all. Kamila Quinn was a witch. Her shop was one of those faux mystical shops but for the people who had the eye for it, it was a real mystical shop. Kamila sold home-made potions and fresh ingredients as well as various charms and hexes.

Kamila enjoyed brewing potions. She loved figuring out what different combinations of ingredients would do and figuring out better ways of making pre-existing potions which is what she is doing right now.

Kamila had had a bit of a nasty encounter with a pixie recently and that pixie cursed her to lose what she loved most. She did not think much of it at the time because she hadn't lost any of her notebooks filled with notes or her pet lizard Nightshade. It wasn't until Kamila had some free time to work on a potion that she realised what had happened.

Kamila did not particularly want to work on any potion. She honestly felt indifferent to it all. Kamila had lost her love of potions! Naturally, the only thing that Kamila could think of was a potion to find lost things. But here is where the issue comes in. All the potions that were used to find lost things were for physical objects. None of them could find something like a love of potions. This meant that Kamila would have to invent or adapt a new potion. But she can't, because she lost her love of potions.

Despite this, Kamila forced herself to get to work. She pulled out the formula for a basic lost-things-found potion and began to plan. To adapt the potion for what she wanted to do, Kamila would need to remove the requirement for the lost thing to be physical.

Kamila analysed all the ingredients in the potion and noted down what all of them did in relation to this potion. With this, she then started to experiment with different combinations of ingredients and preparing them differently. Kamila's first plan was to substitute the ground up dragon scale for powdered unicorn horn because unicorns tend to represent dreams and non-physical objects while dragons are very physical. This was a bust, as were the next thirty plans she tried.

Kamila felt something nudging her head where itlay on her desk. She looked up and saw Nightshade. Kamila realised that she hadn't slept or eaten or drunk anything in ages. Nor had she fed poor Nightshade. She got up and looked around her. The floor was strewn with her failed plans, all ripped up. Kamila went into the kitchen and prepared a quick meal for herself and Nightshade.