Drabble for Museteasers Prompt #1869

[dolorousedda]

museteasers prompt hereThe old woman carefully dipped the still-beating heart into the boiling water. "Do not leave it too long," she told her apprentice, "five heartbeats, no more." She fished the heart out with a silver strainer. "Let it cool in a basin of fresh spring water. See how the color goes from rust to vermilion, then to a fiery gold? It is

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[spacedlaw]

How cruel the lesson! I liked that.