Chapter 14
‘Here’s what remains of Thomas’s recipe,’ said Augustine, showing Esme a ragged sheet of parchment. She had to squint to read it; between mould spots and water damage, it was a challenge to make out any words at all.
The Elixir of Severance
1. In a cast-iron cauldron, reduce a quart of songwater …
2. Add one pint of cold, fresh w … … a strand of Arteria’s scourge.
3. Add one … … of bellachorella … … toxicity.
4. Set to boil. Once everything has dissolved … … seven tears of rue flower.
5. Take one … … bloodstone, and one fossilised … … claw. Grind them into powder and dissolve in the solution for at least seven days … … the patient against the deleterious …
6. Add two roots of devil’s rot, and no more than one drop of pure elysium, to dull the patient’s …
7. Taken
