Esper dozed on his favorite blue pillow as Stefan worked in his room. Papers and books had been set aside to make space for some alchemy work today. None of his usual had any medicine requests. At least not recently. But it never hurt to make extra.

Extra plus he wanted to tweak and play with a few of the recipes. The science wasn’t yet perfect. Not good enough. Always room for improvement. More results needed.

Trying to change the tastes of medicines without changing how they worked could be tricky. It was a lot of trial and error. Or waiting on test results. More often then not he ended up being his own test victim rather then try to find someone else willing. It had only gone badly a few times. Thankfully his sister lived in the Goblet as well. Not that he was any sort of alchemist expert. Yet. His skills with a tome and magic still outclassed his skills with alchemy.

Stefan checked the vial after mixing the ingredients. Setting it aside while he started another. The first one needed to set for a bit before he could test the results of the mixture.