Open Private A Double Helping of Trouble

FennWenn

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The door to one certain alchemist’s shop opened with a rattle and a bang as one mothy fae streaked inside, fluff and antennae alike tangled by the icy winds outside. His wings quivered even after he landed on the floor — a sure sign he’d been putting vodka in his coffee again.

“Supplies!” he yelled, gleefully interrupting whatever it was that Nevin was up to at that moment. “And stuff.”

Fenn was getting used to his visits to the alchemist. Maybe too used to. The shop actually felt a little comfortable to him, despite the barrage of herbal smells that still made his poor, overwhelmed antennae hide in his hair. He was thirsty from his flight over. The fae licked his dry lips and set his bag on a bare spot of counter with a heavy whumpt. They could sort through the herbs and such in a minute.

“Brought you some rosemary, some mugwort,” he rattled off carelessly, “and I’ve been looking at the forest too. Researching plants that actually got some magic to them. I been reading alchemy too, so maybe I can help make new stuff sometime, and… Oh! Oh…”

With considerably less glee, the fae pulled a crumpled wad of money out of his pocket and slide it over. He was… tight on money. For reasons. But paying Nevin correctly for what he did was a necessary due for their “business”, and Fenn liked to keep his promises; it prevented future headaches induced by feeling wishy-washy with his word.

“That’s your cut of the good stuff. What’s you working on?”


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Nevin

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Nevin, thankfully, had not been working on anything when the small Fae smashed into his shop like a whirlwind of ice and fluttering wings. Instead the redheaded alchemist was sitting at his tale, sipping on some tea as he leafed through a thick tome. His eyes swept up when Fenn came in abruptly, and he felt a twinge of annoyed amusement as the Fae dropped his bag down and began rattling things off.

The thought of the small, excitable mothy being, with a predilection for drinking, working in his lab made Nevin experience a stab of apprehension in the back of his head. He could already see shattered vials and frozen things everywhere in his future if that happened.

"Maybe. I'd suggest you work on reining in your cold touch first, though." One thing at a time. "Thank you." Nevin accepted the wad of cash and began unfolding and uncrinkling it, chuckling under his breath. He didn't need to worry about counting it - Fenn's own nature would keep the young man honest, at least in this regard.

"As for what I'm working on, I've got a few products that I've been working with, testing out various properties." He gestured at a warm, golden bottle that was sitting beside him. "This is something I'm not sure on, though." The alchemist frowned at the bottle and tapped the tome that he was previously reading through.

"From everything I can tell, the reagents I combined for this brew should have produced a potion that would have induced a suggestible state in the imbiber, something that is meant to help with fractious patients at hospitals and the like. None of them gave any indication that the resultant brew would be golden or glowing, so I'm at a loss." He sighed and shrugged.

" I know it isn't poisonous. After testing some on a couple plants, I sampled it myself. It's.. Warm and refreshing. Still, not something I think I can repeat easily, so I'm not sure if I can sell it. Or what to label it as if I do sell this one off bottle."
 

FennWenn

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It was with a buzz of low grumbling that Fenn slipped his gardening gloves from his pockets. “Pchhh, already got it ‘reigned in’,” the fae complained quietly, sliding the gloves on with a snap.

He cheered up immediately as Nevin launched into the explanation about some shiny, glowy, warm bottle besides him. Maybe the fae’d read up on alchemy, but words like “fractious” flew over his head a little bit. “Could you explain it in dumb-people-ese? Hrmmm.” Curiously, Fenn flicked the bottle with one gloved hand. The potion inside trembled lightly. It’s golden surface swirled at the disturbance, looking quite pretty. And shiny. “Y’know, if you went and did everything right, and didn’t mean to add anything extra… sounds like something extra worked its way in anyway.” It was a similar problem to what Fenn had experienced while tinkering with drugs back in the Underground. If you were just a little too lax about the tidiness of your workspace, it was easy for something unintended to wind up in a batch and ruin the whole thing.

Especially was bad if that “something” happened to be a curious rat. Fenn shuddered. Best not to think of the Rat Incident. Snowflake’d sure been mad.

“Know what you need to do with things that ain’t poison and ain’t working?” he added, a sharp, sly grin curling up his cheeks. “Test them. Not just your taste-test-boko-no-nosell bullshit, but actually swig a bit and see what the results are. Then you can sell the rest once you’ve figured it out.” The bottle was slipped off the table, and Fenn held it up curiously, other hand absently prodding at the cork. “If you ain’t game, I could totally down it for you.”

Maybe it was him being a rational being and seeing the only effective solution to such a thing — even if said solution was risky. Or maybe it was that he was parched, and that the shiny, gold glow of the potion was rather alluring to some deep, chittering, inner-gremlin within him…
 
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