The youth extracted was milky white and radiating light. It was the purest essence of life itself that she had ever seen, she almost wanted to repeat the distillation again with the boy from earlier.
She had gone through most of her supply of youth to test this process. if this works she will do something similar to another unwilling guest. The extraction was so rapid because his body was already completely infused with the aging waters.
Hebe opened the door and called to Derrick who was sobbing, "We may have a chance to permanently regress you but we have to act fast, come with me."
Derrick was surprised and quickly stopped sniveling. Hebe was already walking back to her familiar youth stations and beginning preparations, Derrick was behind her in a stupor.
"Here, rub this everywhere, it will counteract the steam so you don't continue aging if you sweat. Also, drink this it will do the same for your insides." Hebe handed the old man an ointment and a tea made of herbs sitting on the counter top.
Derrick began rubbing the ointment into his skin and to his surprise it was absorbed immediately and left a slight tingling sensation. Hebe assisted the old man with covering his back in the oil while a bath was being drawn. Derrick chugged the tea with the gusto of a 16 year old.
"Very well, Into the bath." Hebe said helping him in."Your body is full of the impurities that were in the extracted youth serum I gave you before your second treatment. Your body acted as a filter to take them out, and with any luck, the cleansing bath will unclog your youth receptors allowing the purified youth to be fully absorbed by your body."
As Derrick laid in the bath, someone else had come to the spa and rang the front bell impatiently. Hebe rushed out to greet them. "Lachesis what brings you here?" Hebe greeted warmly, Derrick could do little to avoid eavesdropping.
"I am certain you are aware, Hebe." came a cold reply. "You have 3 mortal days to fix it or your immortal existence won't remain pleasant. My sisters and I grow very tired of your trifling with our tapestry, two boy's today, a gaggle of women youthened every few days. All you do is cause us headaches."
"The first boy was aware of what he was doing and insisted upon it, here, see, he knowingly consented. The second boy. He should be better within just the next hour. I have a plan. His tangle will sort itself out." Hebe assured the visitor.
After another moment Hebe came back looking flustered and asked Derrick to get out. He toweled off looking and beginning to feel more and more like an old man.
Hebe guided Derrick to a massage table and unceremoniously began her massage of youth. In practically no time at all Derrick had regressed back to his normal self and Hebe ushered him off the table.
"All right Derrick, we are done for now. You are enchanted so that your family won't notice any age changes that may happen to you as your body processes all that has happened to it. This is new territory for both of us, in the next few days, come back, and we can see how well your body is holding onto the youth granted by the waters, and we can use that to measure how much of the extracted and purified youth you might need"
Derrick cast Hebe a disappointed look. "So what your saying is, I'm still not fixed."
"No, but I do expect you will be, we are doing the impossible." Hebe said excitedly. "Just go along with how your family and others at the resort treat you, but you'll need this." she placed a stamp on Derrick's forearm. "Show this to all staff before participating in any activities, eating, or drinking anything. It will, err... umm... ensure you get the best service."
In reality, the mark meant he was claimed and not to transform him, he was Hebe's experiment now and she wanted to see if she had truly found a concentrated elixir of permanent youth.
Jeff said okay and made his way back to the front desk to get the room key. He expected to find his family back from their tour and was slightly curious if they found anything remotely as crazy as he did.