#1 Effie and Saude Fan

He's Olruggio of the torch! He's THE fire witch! And he's Sweet. He's a little gruff but so very gentle. He refuses to sell or create spells that could even potentially hurt little kids. He's passionate about helping the common people over the demands of the nobility even when it costs him.

He's the Kindest, Most Radiant Star

I, knowing that this was a once in a lifetime opportunity, waited carefully for the lab director to be deep in conversation with someone else on the other side of the laboratory. And then I took my chance.

Test tubes, as it turns out, are really bad as shot glasses. Their shape turns any liquid inside into a stream, so you really can't knock it back quickly - it takes a couple seconds. Additionally, the best way I can describe the taste of virus concentrate was "sterile rot". A very unique kind of bad! Made worse by the test tube's inefficiency as a shot glass.

(by the way we were studying bacteriophages, not animal viruses. these viruses are too specialized on attacking prokaryotes to even recognize our cells as targets at all, according to studies.)

(but also like. if the viruses managed to successfully switch hosts and killed me with a violent infection, itd still be worth it.)