AHHHHH I'm so glad I asked for help haha. I definitely wasn't expecting it to go in that direction but wow! What you were able to do within a week and with such a short story is pretty amazing. I found myself getting moved at the end, that crow is such a good friend. Can't wait to see what you do next! Also something I forgot to mention in my original comment was that it's really interesting to kind of have this mixed escape room and VN approach, it's something I've never really seen done before but I think it has a ton of potential.
P.S. I totally overlooked that necklace, which was what was holding me up, so thank you again for that. I do think there was still a little glitch where the cauldron's temperature would display 500 degrees when it should have been 360 given those ingredients, which threw me for a loop. On that note, it would be nice to have some kind of visual indicator of what the current temp is just for accessibility more than anything else, even if it does maybe make the challenge a little bit easier.