There are very clear instructions in the Scroll. All the ingredients are close at hand, because Scipio had already put them by for whatever he intended. And what did he want, dead Scipio? To bring back his parents, or a lover? Or was he underneath the laughter and the wine a scholar, and sought knowledge before anything else? The desire to learn finds its way into curious places. Or perhaps he wished to make the world his plaything and raise himself to an angel, or a god. That sort of person almost certainly should not attain what they desire, for all our sakes. Will I resurrect him, if I succeed? Will I drink, before I raise Adeodatus? If I do not do so, how shall I control who else may drink, and be remade, in this house of priests and soldiers?