Frank chuckled. "Preparing medicine. What else?"

Soon, a retailer arrived and passed Frank the herbs he picked.

Frank quickly turned and left, while Sadie hurried after him. "I think I know you even less now, master."

Frank chuckled. "Would I still be necessary if you understood everything I do?"

Sadie smiled in wry amusement-that must be true, as Frank was virtually a divine being whom even Sally York feared. Would a mere mortal like Sadie really understand his ways? Soon, they returned to the apartment.

However, when the hunchback saw the medicine Frank was holding, she snapped coolly, "Are you kidding me?"

Frank shrugged. "Trying won't kill you, and there's nothing potentially lethal here like arsenic. Don't you agree?"

Seeing that the hunchback remained skeptical, Sadie pressed, "You can trust me even if you don't believe my mentor, right? You know me-don't you think that my complete faith in him is already testament to his character?"

for being headstrong, and that she would defer entirely to Frank and even become his apprentice was unexpected. The kid must have some potential and had no reason to lie, so she

a pot with Sadie's help and cooking it over a

It really doesn't look

I'll admit that you still need specialized cauldrons for the finest herbs. This one, however, doesn't need

straight-Draconian traditional medicine doesn't need specialized tools at all. Families in older times

an hour," Frank then told her, "and then it's

turned to leave, with Sadie hurrying after

them tea while she sat curled up in a corner, holding a

assured her again. "My mentor

he feel

but Frank was her mentor, so she kept defending him. "Please understand that this is simply

Frank. "Don't worry about her, master. She's always like

nodded in silence, but

to such a hideous

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