Elios stared at the vial Kisha had handed him, her words echoing in his mind. For a moment, everything went blank.
Individually, he understood every word she said, but when put together, they refused to make sense. Not right away. Because what she had just admitted… it wasn't something trivial.
She had successfully created a potion. Which meant she had a working alchemy recipe.
Which meant she had exactly what he had been searching for all this time. The realization came slowly… and then all at once.
Something ignited inside him. A sharp, consuming desire, burning straight through the confusion in his mind, which was clear, undeniable, and impossible to ignore.
"I want to," he said without hesitation.
The moment the words left him, his expression shifted. A smile spread across his face, bright and unguarded, like a child finally receiving the one thing he had been waiting for, for so long.
