RP: A Have A Little List Characters: Severus Snape & Open Time/Date: 24 June, late afternoon Location: The Mall Warnings/Rating: None Yet Summary: Severus goes searching for potion ingredients and a bit more Status: Incomplete
Severus was on a mission. After his discovery that they were to be afforded no chance to relax or find any sort of refuge from the constant scrutiny of their psychopathic jailers, a situation that already had him unable to do more than doze irregularly during the night, fully clothed and with his wand and a knife he'd found in the small kitchen at hand, he knew that he would need to take steps. He'd learned a very long time ago that while his tolerance to stress was better than most, even he had his breaking point. A lesson he'd learned at the receiving end of a scolding from Poppy after three days of vomiting blood and discovering he had an ulcerated stomach.
The circumstances here were going to lead him right down that path again and sooner rather than later. Thus it was best if he took steps to minimise the discomfort. Which meant brewing two potions. The first was a sleeping potion, which he would take only once a week on differing days each week so as not to form a pattern. He knew he could get by on one decent night's sleep plus dozing the other nights. It wouldn't do much for his stress levels but he could manage, especially if he obtained the makings of traps to use on his doors, windows and any other ingress points on his room on the night he chose to use the potion. The other was a potion to alleviate the effects of the stress on his stomach. It wasn't perfect and it wouldn't do anything at all for his already meagre appetite but it would at least stop him from vomiting blood.
He'd been able to find most of what he wanted for the potions in and around the town. They didn't require much in the way of esoteric ingredients after all. He suspected that he could find the rest of what he needed, as well as what he might want for the traps here in this place, especially if this place had one of those idiotic Muggle 'witches' stores. Well, idiotic they may be but it would be useful if it existed. He looked around carefully as he walked through the building, carefully determining what each store contained before moving on.