The next morning, Abigail realised everyone was very alert, apart from her. Magda went on a long gathering trip which took more than half the day. When she came back she was very happy with herself. She gathered a bunch of weeds, greens and a grey rock.
Magda set about, pressing the weeds between two leaves, and pressing on them with a heavy rock, then putting them in fresh leaves and heating it over the fire for five minutes. Then she took the other plants and boiled them until they were mush. Magda rolled the dry weeds into a balls then coated the weeds with the warm mush. Then, she grinded the rock and rolled the balls through it, then let them dry in the sun, the next day let them dry for the whole day in the sunlight.
"Girls can you come here? I got something to show you." Magda exclaimed.
"Here, I have been trying to make a Bolvero ball. They're explosives." she explained.
"What?! Are you joking? Seriously... you think those mud balls are explosives?!" Abigail laughed, an obvious sneer in her voice.
"Mud balls! Wow,Gail! Good one, true too." Lokeyia laughed.
"I have made six Bolvero balls. The Bolvero ball was invented by a Meropian man -"
"Ofcourse. Meropians always make all the newest and best technology." Sara groaned
"And the Bolvero balls were very popular in Merope. They were invented about 300 years ago. Now, they're only in museums because the Meropians have crueler methods. The first maker named them Etique balls. However, about 270 years ago, a Cirician woman studied the Etique balls closely and came up with a common herb, actually now it's a weed, and she dried it and put it inside the Etique ball. When tested, the ball was almost two times stronger than Etique ball. The Meropians were mad, because they were the laughing stock for the rest of the century. The Cirician woman renamed the ball the Bolvero ball. The Meropians have had a grudge against Cirices ever since." Magda explained.
There was a long break of silence as the information was processed. Abigail walked over to the ball and felt it, then sniffed it.
"Ofcourse. The mushy area gives off an alkaline charge, the weeds give off an acidic! Very clever and also simple! Just a little thinking about chemistry." Abigail exclaimed.
"What?!" Magda exclaimed, in equal surprise.
Then Magda ordered Abigail, Lokeyia and Sara to stand back and threw the ball. There was a big explosion and the bush which she threw it at exploded and the plant matter rained down through the dust.
Everyone gasped.
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Escape from Cirices Part 1
Adventure[COMPLETE] When Cirices is threatened to be overtaken by a neighbouring, larger town, Merope, anxiety, panic and depression rises in Cirices. When Abigail's parents arrange her to escape Cirices, she has no choice but to if she doesn't want to be ca...
