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Jihyo and Jeongyeon often worked together.
They brewed potions together, experimented together to such an extent that only ashes remained from the decoctions. The room filled with smoke, forcing the other witches to fly out of the room in a flash. Got them for pranks, too, together. It was even said about them that they were something like Siamese twins - they were so close.
Every day the connection between them has increased so much that one day the girls did not notice the changes that happened to them. Jihyo's smile became more gentle and friendly as soon as Jeongyeon appeared in the common room to discuss plans for the week. Jeongyeon herself flourished when it came to Jiihyo. It seemed that the world existed only for them, they were pushed and tried to connect. But it was as if they were blind, since they did not notice the obvious facts.
"Are you doing well?" coming up from behind, Park asked and hugged Jeongyeon, not paying attention at all to the sidelong glances of the other witches at herself.
Jeonyeong shrugged her shoulders and exhaled heavily. "The feeling that I forgot something, but strictly followed everything according to our book".
Red spots began to form on the bottom of the boiler, while for some reason the bulk of the liquid spread along the walls of the boiler, not wanting to flow into the middle.
It was strange even by the standards of witch practice.
Jihyo had to stop hugging the older one and come over to check. Her eyebrows went up as she looked into the vat of the future potion. "Did you put wolf berries?"
"Yeah".
"And the crushed plantain leaf, too?"
"His first of all".
"And a solution of infused moss?"
"Nine percent!"
"Hmm", Jihyo thought. According to the ingredients, Jeongyeon did everything right, but something really wasn't right.
They even risked calling the main witch, because they were afraid that they might get something serious from the future potions.
"Seulgi, could you come here?" Jihyo and Jeongyeon held hands to support each other as much as possible.
They weren't afraid, they just felt kind of uncomfortable about it. Yes, it was possible to make mistakes, and the witches themselves allowed themselves to make mistakes, because it was possible to learn magic well. But this is different.
"What happened to you, gir... Holy beard of Marilyn!" Kang was not furious — shocked.
Her gaze hovered over the vat with the future potion, and only then she looked at each of the girls.
"Don't tell Cal about this, okay?" Seulgi was very strict, and even the ever-positive Jihyo tensed up, squeezing someone else's palm harder in her own.
"Seulgi, about what exactly? That something went wrong in the potion?"
Seul smiled strangely and came closer to the witches, forming a circle with them.
"About the fact that you two have a relationship, an office romance and all that", she giggled and was about to leave when Jeongyeon stopped her.
"But... how did you know?"
The main witch now felt like a step-mom, no other way, because something glistened in her eyes warily, and she was again close to the witch girls. "Each of the future potions has an explanatory note at the end of the book", Jihyo nodded, as she knew about it initially. From Jeongyeon's dumbfounded face, it could be seen that she had heard about this for the first time. Just now. "So, you have to be careful with the tincture of moss, with this concentrated solution. There is a warning that colleagues on the shop floor, in this case it is you, cannot be in touch, which is more than just friendship, otherwise the concentration of the solution will decrease, and instead of nine percent there will be three or five — who knows exactly how many. But the fact that it will become smaller is already a proven truth".
Seulgi, leaving the girls in deep thought, left.
They had a lot of time to realize what they had heard, finally uncouple their palms and understand how dear they really are to each other. Much more than it seemed before.
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