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THEY’RE GOING TO HAVE TO COME OFF!
The potion hissed slightly as Thordric and Kal waited for it to work. The silver colour really did make it resemble liquid metal, meaning Kal’s hands looked like they’d been decorated with metal studs. However, after a few minutes, the hissing died down and the metal studs began to shrink away as the craters filled with freshly grown skin. Kal sighed, but Thordric was holding his breath – Vey hadn’t finished testing the potion yet.
Kal’s hands were almost back to normal now…but as Thordric had been suspecting, the skin kept growing.
‘Thordric, what’s happening?’ Kal said, flicking his hands in the hope that it would stop. Unfortunately, it only made it worse. Now, instead of craters on his hands, he had great bobbles of skin. One moment they were pe
