Cleansed from the creek and dressed in Will’s finest clothes, Boy followed Reynold down the hall, up many flights of stairs and into the largest bathroom Boy had ever seen.
“Do you know what this is?” Reynold said pointing at an ornate bottle on a shelf at the far end of the room.
Boy’s heart clenched realizing that he didn’t. Was this a test? Had he just failed?
“You can pick it up,” Reynold hinted.
Retrieving it and smelling the bottle, a flood of memories washed his mind. It was like what his master had him put in his tub. He even remembered the name of it.
“Rose essence?” Boy said hesitantly.
Reynold looked at him impressed. “And, what do you do with it?”
“You pour a little bit of it in the water at the end.”
“Exactly. This is the last thing you put in. First, it’s this,” Reyno
