Melona nearly leapt out of her skin as she whirled around to face the person who had crept up behind her.
"Drif! Gods, don't scare me like that!"
Drif was Melona's first--and only--friend at the Academy. They'd bonded over their mutual inability to have meaningful social lives and their abysmal academic performance. Drif had stuck with Melona through the ups and downs (mostly downs) of their time at the school, using her combination of ingenuity, alchemical skill, and comparative lack of restraint or ethical compunctions to make life a little easier. She was an odd friend, but a good one to have.
Unfortunately, she also managed to startle Melona at the worst possible times.
Drif looked up at Melona, brushing a messy lock of green hair out of her face. "What are you talking about? I said 'hi' like five times." Her eyes flicked back down towards the paper in Melona's hand, grinning. "So, what're you reading? Must be good."
Melona blushed a little. "It's a um. Potion recipe, but I don't think it's any good. I--"
Melona had to give Drif credit for not immediately snatching the paper out of her hand. Rather, she simply shot around towards Melona's side, grabbed her arm, and tried to wrench it into a position that she could read it more clearly. Her lack of subtlety and upper-body strength, however, meant that her attempt at force failed, and had to wait the additional half-second it took for Melona to hand the recipe over to her.
"Here," said Melona. "I don't really know what to think of this."
Drif chuckled. "Build-a-Babe?" She shook her head. "Kinda sounds like something I'd make." She screwed up her eyes in concentration as she sifted through her memories. "Pretty sure I didn't, though."
Melona nodded as Drif went back to studying the paper, making little disapproving clicks of the tongue or appreciative mutters of praise as she did. This was taking longer than she had anticipated. Normally, it only took Drif a minute to do a cursory evaluation of a potion's formula, but this seemed different.
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