picks out a couple herbs at random, and begins to crush them up with the pestle, as he looks into the book to see if he was actually making somthing or if he was missing things, as the herbs are ground up into dust, he puts them into the calicinator, watching as the liquid is turned to steam in the alemlic, and drops down as a liquid with no poisons in it, sniffing it lightly, then looks to you to see if you think it is safe, not trusting himself as he doesn't pay very much attention to what he is doing.