"Oh sorry…" Eric apologized, "I didn't know you were here…" He was about to say something until he saw the book Lazuli had. "Are you a doctor?" he asked, "or are you trying to add on to this robot pandemic?" Eric wasn't the type of person to get into other's business but he wanted to make sure that the man sitting in front of him wasn't going to cause any danger to anyone.
“Oh, me? Not much of a doctor, more a teacher. I’m just studying something my father passed on to me, thought it might be useful. Just a bunch of garbled teach about the soul, and a couple of little potions that went nowhere except a hangover. Whoever wrote this must have really liked his drugs. But there’s apparently something in here that could change modern medicine forever, I suppose it’s worthwhile looking in to.” he shrugged, continued to read his book. Nothing was really making sense, not in the traditional way at least. But as the words looped and flowed about, so did the patterns in his mind reach out to grasp them, become them.
Eric moved his chair next to Lazuli to get a better view of the book. He read the page Lazuli was on to get the idea of what he was reading. "Maybe you have to rearrange the ingredients in a certain order to get results?" Eric suggested, "but you keep the amount of the ingredients in the same spot Like… if the potion calls for one cup of Suger and a half cup of water and when you rearrange the ingredients it says water and sugar but now it says one cup of water and a half cup of sugar?"
"I don't know. I feel like all of these were just, well, failures. No point to them, they don't do anything meaningful." he shrugged, looking through the journal again. "This is one in a set. My father thinks it holds the key, none of the others told of anything useful in his mind so he locked them up. I wish I could see all of them, for research purposes obviously. Maybe they'd tell me something…"
"I understand what you mean. Maybe you need to cross-reference between books to understand the pattern." Eric was about to add something but he was called that his drink was ready. "Oh… I guess I'll see you sometime," he said before getting his drink, "it was nice to talk with you." He walked out of the Cafe and headed in the direction of his class.
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