From Lady Tanglebrook's bedroom she walks east towards a hallway. Zanzi enters the hallway where Tomi disarms a trap to a door that leads to room used as a library. In the library Zanzi finds a vial containing greenish-yellow slightly effervescent liquid, a celestial elixir. She remembers what the human bard henchman Sharwyn said about needing an elixir to cure her ailing mother (Algebra MM 5 5.3 - Zanzi is reminded about the properties of logarithms). Zanzi therefore stores the vial in her inventory with the intention of speaking to Sharwyn when she gets back to the City Core and revisits the Trade of Blades. She is about to leave the library but the sweet honeysuckle-like smell of the elixir persuades her to take it out of her inventory and have another look. After unplugging the stopper and taking a deep breath to smell the fragrant aroma she becomes curious to know how it tastes. She tilts the vial a little and dips her pinkie into the elixir. She is about to lick the finger when Tomi intervenes: "Whoa! What you doing? You've no idea what that stuff is." Zanzi: "It's just a curative. Sharwyn told me about it," and with that she sucks the elixir from the tip of her finger. It tastes as pleasantly sweet as it smells. Zanzi holds the vial towards Tomi and says, "Want some?" Tomi: "Nah, I'll pass." After resealing the vial and placing it back in her inventory she picks up her crossbow and begins to exit the library, at which point a wave of dizziness hits causing her to stumble and forcing her to crouch down to prevent herself from falling. Tomi, concerned, attempts to support her as she stumbles but is flung back by an electrical aura that suddenly shrouds Zanzi's body. When he shakes his head and looks at her again Zanzi is lit up like a Christmas tree.
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Dizziness gradually gives way to euphoria as the celestial elixir fills Zanzi's body with vibrant life energy. It works its sensual chemistry by transforming her eye and visual cortex polygons from irregular to regular. Each polygon slowly starts to turn in unison and then stops at each full turn of rotational symmetry (120 deg for equilateral triangles, 90 deg for quadrilaterals, 72 deg for pentagons, and so on) before resuming at a faster rotation. With eyes of rapidly changing colour she begins to see everything through a sparkling spectrum of hues. The elixir begins to dilate all the polygons of Zanzi's brain involved with processing sensory information, so that each polygon can process more, faster. She moans in a hedonistic melee as all her senses explode in an orgy of uncontrollable pleasure. She hears the vibrant colours as harmonic multi-layered sounds (Pink Floyd - "Any Colour You Like") as beams of light pulse from her eyes and strobe through all colours of the rainbow. She is floating, lighter than air. She tastes each colour in an array of delicious flavours. Her skin feels reborn as if experiencing adult touch for the very first time. She smells the colours, energetic ions of a sweet fresh bouquet. The crescendo of celestial potency occurs as the elixir stimulates Zanzi's master parallelogram into undergoing a glide reflection, causing her to lose self-identity. She no longer knows who she is or what she is, and during the short time that this glide reflection is active Zanzi derives indescribably intense ecstasy as she experiences both the darkest of evil and in the brightest of good at the same instant. Drenched in sweat and left limp by the cumulative effects of the celestial elixir, Zanzi just about regains the strength to slowly pick herself up from the floor. Once again taking out the vial from her inventory, she looks questioningly at the gently bubbling liquid and speaks to herself in a weakened voice, "Sharwyn, you minx!"
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