Author's Note: All participants are clearly over the age of 18.
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Valerie yanked her hands backwards as the vial spilled out onto her desk. Black smoke rising from where the acid cut its new home.
She glared and banged on the side of the hut, "Would you keep it steady? Some of us are trying to work back here!"
The walls of the hut gave a little shudder, and Valerie rolled her eyes at the protesting thing. Running around on chicken legs mustn't be the world's hardest thing. It also wasn't like they needed to arrive at a certain time. The village was a lonely one, which was precisely why the two of them were on their way over. It made good business sense.
Giant glass shapes surrounded her from all sides in the hut. Those were on systems so that they were always level, even if the floor wasn't. Her table, unfortunately, was not. That was where she took a few drips from the various systems and combined them together, usually with a wink or three of magic, to produce the medicines that the crowd would want.
There was always a surprising variety of things, especially out here in the sticks, but the majority of what she sold was for colds, flus, headaches and... Well... Bedroom problems.
Hard to keep a marriage happy when a man can't stand to, and his wife can't get a rub in. Especially when you can't really just run away from each other. Divorce in a village of twelve isn't really a thing.
There was a thundering sound and Valerie grabbed everything on her table. The entire world careened for a moment, up was down, and left was also above somehow, and then the hut came to a crashing collapse as it parked. She gently rearranged her desk and breathed out a sigh of relief.
Behind her, dawn sunlight flooded in as the verandah lifted up.