#8 - getting started

Reena had pulled her scarf closer into her face as soon as she had left the castle to escape the cold air. She just had to get her potions kit in Novembre, hadn't she?
Had it been this cold during Charms class?
Probably.
She most likely just had not noticed it as much because she had been excited to learn a new spell and move objects around with Jurni.

Which was all fun and games but since she had run into Jurni's brother in the Main Corridor and had more or less embarassed herself she decided that one Xcalyn was enough and she hoped Jurni would not make her interact with her family too much.
She briefly wondered if Jaxen would be disappointed she had not come to him right after class but she had forgotten her map and thus could not properly locate him.

Reena told herself that she did not know where she had put her map despite being fairly certain in just which folder she had put it once she had known her way around the castle.
She just had not looked at it in a while and it served as an excuse.

Looking at the list Lukas Mardling had written down for her she groaned when she saw that she needed Humbleflies and Beestripe Grub. That was disgusting. And she had to drink that stuff?
Checking with the list of ingredients and where to find them that Snape had given her, she made a disgusted face.

Eww. Humbleflies were attracted to dung. Of bloody course they were. Could a creature get any more disgusting?

She would stick to collecting Fluxygrass first, an ingredient she needed that actually was neither disgusting nor seemed too hard to find. Checking Snape's list for another easier to find ingredient in the same area she decided she would also look for Brittlebush. That should be even easier to spot than Fluxygrass, right?

Reena sighed as she glanced back on Mardling's list.
She needed Duskcap for the potion. It would take her ages to get a teacher to take her to the Forbidden Forest!

But that was a problem for future (and hopefully warmer) Reena to worry about and she started to look for Brittlebush on the Expansive Lawn. Perhaps she would stumble upon Fluxygrass too then, she would keep her eyes open.