--- Kat ---
Things did not get easier from there as Appoline continued to introduce new ingredients. It showed that potion making could extend quite far and that the simple 'chuck in ingredients, break it down, ball it up' idea Kat had of alchemy was horrifically wrong. Kat's assumption had been that the difficulty came from needing to break increasingly complex ingredients down and separate the unwanted parts more delicately entwined with each other or something…
But while that was a factor you also had to ensure that the core you were building was solid, and that involved literally building around it. Sometimes including runic structures in the construction. Tweedle nearly lost her mind when Appoline considered this 'perfectly normal' and 'not too hard'. Apparently it was meant to be the pinnacle of alchemy, something Appoline new was ludicrous. Putting on single rune in a layer really was the basics, even if Appoline couldn't take it much further yet herself.
