What she came across in one of the dusty recipe drawers was a formula for drugging race horses. It made a horse run like the wind, and came with a caution not to use it more than once on the same horse in six weeks. The recipe was written by hand and was attached to old newspaper reports of a horse called Stealthy Doressa. The horse was famous. That was the horse that over 100 years ago had made its owner extremely rich.
Anise made a handwritten copy. Of course, she didn’t have a race horse. The ingredients were quite simple; just a few everyday things available in shops. Anise went home and mixed up a substantial brew. That was the last anyone heard of it. In fact no one had heard of it other than Anise! She had destroyed the original. With no race horse the secret was lost forever.
Incidentally, on a happier note – Anise work at the canteen at the local high school. It was Sports Day. The school still allowed biological males to compete in girls’ events. The boys kept coming last. Goodness! How did that happen?
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