Empire Of Alchemy

- “I wouldn’t touch those bars” “Why?” “They’ve been coated with dragonscale resin, it’ll feel like you’re grabbing white hot metal,” Says the disinterested guard reading the paper.

- Ebb runs through what happened in first person, with occasional comments by the investigator in italics

- “Can I get Inspector Lod back.” “No”

- The Deal is struck between Ebb and the Livery Company lady: We cure you, you get an apprentice and work for us, with regular checkups ofc

- “So you’re not gonna tell me your name?” “If you’re lucky, we’ll never see each other again.”

- Swing by Mad’s for ingredients

- Meeting Mad for the first time at her apothecary, exactly as standoffish as in the first version of this story

- Ebb is cured of TB, turns out not Mad is the chief medical lady

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- Mad instructs Ebb to go deliver shit, he comes back and she’s shooing two people, turns out they were a part of the New Light Astrological Society

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- Rushing To Mad For Medical Aid

“Mon Apprenti, what happened!?”

“He was caught in a blast,” Po gurgled, disgorging ether on the floor, sky blue seeping into the cracks of the wooden floor.

“Po, sit down, let me tend to you,” She said, clearing a space on the bench, letting glass crash to the ground.

“I’m fine, tend to him.”

- Po fading, carrying an injured Ebb to Mad

- Mad has to tend to Po and Ebb

- Exhausted Mad sleeping

- Meeting The Anglian Government

- They have no time for Rembracht’s bullshit

- The Big Climax