Magical Ingredients

“A boon, eh, sweet girl? Well, then: Bring me three eggs from a white cockatrice that lives in a farmer’s barn, the bitter essence of the yellow fruit that grows in the elephant lands, distilled crystals from the world’s deepest waters, and an ounce of oil from the olives that grow in the war-goddess's garden, in the shadow of her shrine.”

The princess frowned. “And all this, this will brew a potion to make the prince fall in love with me?”

“What? Well, sure, I guess,” the hedge-witch shrugged. 

“If he really likes mayonnaise, that is.”