Alchemy? You mean like... turning lead into gold and all that? That kind of alchemy?

[He'll have to forgive her and the slight skepticism there. She's still getting used to the reality of... well, all of this.

Still, she can follow the conversation easily enough. Whatever her father did to her was vile. If he wanted to talk about sins, then he seemed to fit that bill.]

So he's the mad scientist type, then. I ran into one myself awhile back. Human lives take a backseat when they're trying to make some kind of twisted point.