Silan glanced at the cauldron and deliberately played dumb. "When I added the last ingredient, I missed the right moment..."
Snape shook his head irritably. "That is not what I asked. What did you do after adding the final ingredient?"
"I just... finished up as usual," Silan said, being anything but honest. "I didn't do anything else."
[Silver Tongue: proficiency +1]
Silan was too nervous to pay any attention to the virtual screen that had popped up.
He still did not quite have a handle on the effect of his newly acquired trait. He had only intended to give it a quick test, but the results seemed a little too good...
This was his first time learning to brew the Wolfsbane Potion, so it was naturally difficult to get every detail right.
With the bonus from [Potion Prodigy], however, he could just about produce a Wolfsbane Potion seventy percent as good as Snape's.
But adding [Potion Prodigy]'s latest quality boost had actually made this cauldron of potion more effective than the one Snape had brewed.
As a true Potions Master, how could Snape fail to notice something like that?
Of course he could detect such an abnormal, brute-force improvement.
This percentage boost really is a bit excessive... Silan marveled inwardly, deciding to play dumb to the bitter end and deny knowing anything.
I don't know.
I don't remember.
It wasn't me.
"Could it be because this cauldron was used to brew a batch of Wolfsbane Potion earlier? But Prewett cleaned it before starting." Snape circled the workbench, muttering to himself, his eyes never leaving the cauldron for an instant. "The ingredients came from the same batch, so they cannot be the problem. Could the issue lie in the procedure?"
Faced with a puzzling potions problem, Snape wore a