The room was dark, barely a light could escape from its dimly lit ambience. Shadows were cornering on each side, hiding some various pieces of glass which were the test tubes, sitting on the shelfs, dusting, only to be waiting to be used. At the side of the room, a big board was displayed, filled with messy records, lots of highlights and some important sticky notes supported by a pin on top of it.
The space was nothing but a mess. Piles of sheets stack up in a frenzy way which some of them lay flatly on the floor, rotten fundamentals were placed in half closed cabinets (it was forgotten), scattered failed research. Then, there were some tubes that were currently boiling for…were quite sometimes sitting another arranged counter, far from the board.
The room—or a lab hazard—owned by a witch, Athena Asamiya, mainly used for her experiments. Some of them were odd chemical combinations that didn't even react or were way too extraordinary to interpret between two, three, many ingredients that were only specifically obtainable from different planets where the ones she collected or sent by Astra-corporation itselfs.
Athena, aside from her horrible laboratory, is actually a well-known witch in Astratranium Station. Have memorized over 500 recipes in potions that some of them require the same ingredients and chemicals but have different ways to make them. Most of her potions were immensely risky with unknown consequences. Which—of course she had to take notes based on its responding variable.
Most of the Astratranium Members or Astras Student would much avoid her not because of hatred, but a favour that would shiver them and quickly shake their heads and run away as far as possible.
All she did, as soon as she spotted a student, hurriedly to them and offered a shape cone tube on her hand with "Hey! Do you want to test this potion?"
Some of them were knowledgeable enough to refuse her politely or gave logical excuses that were actually possible because they knew better—that Athena wasn't an ideal person to twist your sentence with. But on rare occasions, some of them would volunteer, involving themselves to be one of Athena's lab rats.
Though most of them actually worked, based on her theoretical hypothesis that was seemingly to be true.
Once, when a Astratranium Trainee had turned himself in to test one of Athena's potions that he had been interested in and had been following her updates from time to time.
But what couldn't expect was—way out of his expectations that a potion, supposedly could levitate, making his body light as a feather. Well—it did make his body lighter than usual except he burst out, flying around uncoordinated like a deflated balloon with a furious speed that neither of the trainee could suppress…yet.
It took Athena and another, a mage, Madam Azure to use her charm to slow the surroundings except her and Athena who had finally managed to make a counter potion from what she had given the poor trainee earlier.
Even as a Highly Honorable Astratranium Member, she got a penalty, stating that she had used to exploit a person, handed by Madam Azure after she had helped her.
Now and then, Athena actually needs a permit to ask permission from the mages, before running another test and not being accused of 'plotting an execution' thing to another person.
Others find it hilarious especially other Highly Honorable Astratranium Members (so does herself) at the thought of Athena had to submit two page long, words of assuring and long list of items that had been used in the experiment.
The door room—suddenly—automatically glides to open, exposing the light in a poorly lit room, the rays of light traveling against the main black cauldron, with an odd-looking cyan inside it.