Lesser Oil of Sharpness Recipe
Today I snapped at a good friend of mine in the Elfsong. I'm embarrassed about it now. Not then. This prickly mood had come over me, because for the first time in ages I was thinking hard about my condition. The friction of cloth on my scaleless, malformed flesh has escalated into a sharp tug. Can't get that word out of my head. shhhhhaaaaaarrrrp. Ended up scribbling a tried-and-tested oil formula, just to busy my throbbing hands. Reading it over, I grin, which hurts almost as much as writing. Stir Salts of Viridian Crystal into any Vitriol, and you will produce an oil good for putting on weapons, making their edge keener. The oil is called Lesser Oil of Sharpness. Never was good at naming alchemical products. Not exactly imaginative. Well, to hell with it. Holding my hot chocolate, one of the few comforts I've got now, in the scratching, numbing, pinching, peeling, maddening ache of the everyday.