43 Retract your power

"You're going to get an item from the auction house tomorrow, so might as well do the pill today," Bluey sighed.

"Alright. I'll get all the ingredients."

"But the pheonix feather-"

"Red."

Bluey looked at Xuanmei, very confused.

Xuanmei shrugged and didn't explain further, taking out the pheonix feather, the two tears of a goddess, the dragon scales, the golden plywood that she had cut from the golden plywood tree, the silver-gray moonlight rose, and a drop of silver dew.

(A: I totally forgot what the ingredients were :O I had to check 'Caldron')

"You know, you're lucky that the goddess tear doesn't really have a purpose, which is why you won the auction so easily. Some just want it because it's a beautiful shape and colour. It is a solid tear instead of a liquid one after all."

Xuanmei nodded, lighting the Caldron.

"Look, what you have to do now is very important. Wait for the Caldron to heat up, and make a mould with the clay. You will only be boiling the mixture and so you will not melt the clay."

Xuanmei nodded, pinched a small amount of clay from the side of the table and flattened it before creating a flat sphere* with an open top.

(A: And if you're asking, no. You probably shouldn't use clay. Resin is the best option even though Fire clay is resistant to high temperatures, the material having fusion points higher than 1,600 °C (2,910 °F). I only chose this material because it was the only one that made sense instead of using metal, 'cause then... Oh yeah... Why didn't I use metal?)

"Okay. This is your maximum potential... All in one pill. It's going to be hard to eat... Anyway! All you have to do is pour in a sliver of power into the Caldron."

(Okay I remember now. I didn't, because you just DON'T. Bad idea. Its a good conductor of heat and what happens when you put it on a WOODEN table?)

(Unfortunately, metals burn. Most metals release a lot of heat when they burn and are hard to put out. Thus, red hot blinding metal. Science lessons! With A!)

Xuanmei did as told, directing a bit of power into the Caldron. Before either Bluey or Xuanmei could react, Xuanmei's power stage blew up to bigger proportions as she felt her element draining.

"Retract your power! Stop sending in your element!"

"I stopped long ago! It's still draining at my element, though!"

"Oh that's not good... Not good at all... Well, you said it was draining your power, which element? Uhm, which one?"

Purple strings came out from within her heart as it reached out, tying itself to different things and eventually lifting her into the air.

*Spheroid (which was what I meant), which is kind of a round antibiotic pill shape. (A: Wow I suck at descriptions. Shocking. Electrifying. I know. What do you expect out of a newbie?)