#qat7k

Like he'd see his boy, his only son the, reason he's doing all this his last remaining family to see him again happy, safe and alive. He is not going to be able to look the other way you would have to drag him away kicking and screaming and even then you'd be lucky to even get him to look away

Quirin carries around one of Varians old experiment log/journal as a keep sake.

Yong finds it somehow (fell out of a bag/rummaging through Quirin stuff/ect) and thinks Quirin is secretly like some sort of alchemist/knight, lord demanitis type person and tries out some of the experiments in the log/journal cause he thinks there cool

Meanwhile, Quirin is freaking the fuck out cause where the hell did Varians log/ journal go?! and when he finds out Yong has it he goes ballistic that he took and could have damaged it via the various experiments/ losing it/ ect. The two argue and the truth about who it belongs to and why Quirin has it is revealed... sort of. I think Quirin would still hide a lot of details and the crew would only learn that the log/journal is his sons and that his son needs some sort of help that Quirin believes can only be found in the library

Quirin at first is still very protective of all of the crew. Varian would have been around the same age as yong and Nuru and he would be just a year younger than Hugo.

I think this would be a good point of conflict for the early journey especially with Hugo who is used to taking care of himself and suddenly this old, retired knight trying to act like his father when he can barely take care of himself

Yong also gets really annoyed cause Quirin is very strict when it comes to him doing experiments of any kind despite not knowing a thing about chemical reactions and experiments in general!