“I ask that you do not laugh at me.” Mr. Ywain smiled. “The Adelmar Clan’s knowledge about medicine is incredible. Everyone would kill to get their hands on it. The books I stole were the ones they discarded, so technically, I didn’t steal.”

“There are books they’d discard?” Adam thought that was implausible.

“Give me a minute.” Mr. Ywain went to the inner room and came back out with a bag. He opened it up and revealed a few ancient, half-burned tomes.

“What are these?”

“The books I stole,” said Mr. Ywain. “Robert didn’t like these books, since they contain subpar recipes. He thinks keeping them around would be a menace to society, so he tried to destroy it, but I stole a few of them when he wasn’t looking. Fortunately, the things I learned gave me enough to make a living.”

Adam smiled. “Reminds me of the time I stole Waylon’s Vampire Dust.”

“What?” Mr. Ywain asked, “How’d you do it?”

he said he would delete some of the more insidious recipes. I was wondering what kind of recipes

impressive,” said Mr. Ywain. “But Vampire Dust

skim through

Ywain. “But not like you can do much with it. Without any knowledge about medicine, most people can’t master

so he didn’t flip it over. The best he could manage was to turn to the

said smugly, “Anyone who takes that poison will experience a pain worse than death,

is torture to

Ywain grinned.

“It is.”

destroyed these recipes.

preserved them to

Ywain laughed. “Just think it’d be

see. Can you make this, then?” Adam

smiled at Adam.

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