Crowglass thanked them pleasantly and allowed the departing candidates time to settle.
The second question concerned a failed concoction... its quantities and temperature matched the recipe, but the brewer added the next ingredient as soon as Pearl-Hush Distillate cleared the foam.
'Isn't this...'
Levi recognized the mistake from Alzhukar's notes... although it didn't apply to the exact concoction, the scenario was similar.
He soon realized why Ash'Kral had pushed him to join even when he believed himself not to be ready... he knew that Alzhukar's ancient notes were so rich in information that most of Crowglass's difficult questions would either show up in the notes or at least share a similar problem with different materials.
He submitted his answer, explaining that testing for unreacted essence would have confirmed whether the mixture was ready.
