❰ the smile isn't helping, but that doesn't deter adlia — she just keeps smiling, even as she stops moving any closer and very conspicuously moves her hands from her sides, demonstrating their emptiness (and showing off her anchor shard as she does so) before clasping them in front of her. she's not a threat unless she has to be, and she'd prefer not to have to be if she can avoid it. ❱

I'm a Rifter, friend, my name is Adalia. I was studying the alchemical arts in my home, but I was brought here before I could learn too much about them, and I'm struggling now to find native substitutes for the required ingredients of some recipes I know. I wondered if I might work with you, so that you could teach me the properties of the herbs you use, and I could repay you with the things I can make.