(reminder ping)

"....yikes," Echo's eyes widen slightly. "Um.... that's gotta suck."

"Yes it is," Alastor said with a sigh. "Some ingredients takes a year to be ripped if they are plants, and you would need to travel a very far place to find the ingredient if they come from a creature. For example the feather from the willing phoenix." Alastor shakes her head a bit. "Want makes me mad is that witches and wizards get arrogant and thinks they are better then everyone just takes ingredients they need from the unwilling creatures,"

Echo blinks. "I do not understand a word you just said."

"Think of it as this way. Lets say the arrogant witches and wizards are the greedy people. Now let's say the creatures are the people that needs stuff to survive. The greedy people then take the stuff forcefully and unwilling from the normal people needed to survive" Alastor said with catching breaths every few seconds. Alastor remembers the lesson that her teacher told her to only take from a creature willing and not take from a unwilling creatures when getting the ingredients for any potion that requires it.

Echo nods slowly, understanding a little bit. "Yeah, I get that much, but I still don't really get the 'witch and wizard' thing. Where I live, they doesn't really.... exist?"

"Like they are a myth or legend?" Alastor asked. She is surprised a bit that where Echo comes from there are no witches or wizards.

"Yeah, exactly." Echo nods. "I mean, I suppose some of the youngest kids at some point might have believed, but it's fair to say most functioning adults...." He shrugs. "Not so much."

"Look's like magic must have faded a bit or found a new way to live in your time I suppose," Alastor said with sad look in her eyes although you couldn't tell if she was sad or not. Alastor was very sad that no one believes that there were witches and wizards besides the younger children.

Echo rubs his temples, suddenly realizing the amplitude of his headache. ....argh.... why am I here? I've got to be dreaming.... yeah, this is all just a really weird dream....