I realized that the mixture is completely hopeless. I looked at Drake who is sitting right in front of the mushroom house, the exact position where he is at the moment I have arrived here in spring zone. He seemed to notice that I am looking at him when he looked back at me and laid his book down and muttered the word 'What?' without saying it out loud.
I sighed and left the ladle inside the cauldron and walked towards him. I noticed from the corner of my eye how Mave, Vaughn, and Roe followed their gazes through me. Unluckily, the other five are not here because they said that they need to help the smurfs in their village as a payment for our rent here in this mushroom house, and no one's that decent as they that left here except for Drake that leaves me no choice.
"The mixture won't b
