A Thought Experiment

Ophelia thanked Fee at the door, having left her shawl in the foyer to dry by the door as they chatted -- and swept into the room, face and fingers stained with in, so much so this time that the cuffs of her under dress were stained, but thankfully not the over shift.  The under could be bleached to remove them, but it was apparent she had slept on her work again last night, a usual occurrence for her. [color=#ff4136] "I'll not bore you with small talk of weather, or that I expect you to be seen at some houses' soiree in the coming weeks, because we both know that we'd both be in tears by the end of that, so to the point what if we've been mixing herbs wrong all around and what no one has ever stopped to posit was that, we know they work better, faster, with certain infusions and combinations, but no one's actually taken the time to figure out if it's a specific plant that speeds up what ever the potion is trying to do, or if it's the amount.  I'm making sense still, yes?"[/color]

She paused as she tugged on her dress as she took a seat, leaning forward, elbows on her knees as she spoke, her eyes focused on a spot on the floor in front of her as she paused to gather herself a moment.  She didn't want to waste his time, she was always afraid that one day Luce's friends would stop treating her kindly, and she'd be back to not having many people to talk to, so, she tried not to take up too much of their time.

[color=#ff4136]"So before I go and buy out the entire market, a thought experiment, how much can we do in our heads before practicality demands that I spend hours chopping botanicals and drinking these mixtures myself to test my theories, or am I picking the wrong thread to pull at in my studies?  Am I being too bold in assuming that maybe Arancia didn't take as much time as they should have on their Botanical Compendium and that I could do any better?"[/color]  Lia frowned at that thought -- was she being too presumptuous that she could improve on Arancia's compendium?