"Alright," Rhazii said dubiously. "I get all that, it's just...what happened in Thorn?"

Fendros picked up where Ahnasha left it. Rhazii's curiosity was not something he wanted to leave unquenched with regards to narcotics. "We were at a festival with a lot of different foods, including Khajiit foods. This was...I think before you were born, Rhazii, but while your mother was carrying you."

Rhazii's ears were pert in attention.

"I had already told Ahna that I was none-too-tolerant of moon sugar," Fendros continued. "Due to an accidental mix-up, I ate part of a pastry a bit like that one." Fendros pointed to the treat Ahnasha had waved in front of him. "It made me very sick and stressed. Ahna, I'm told, kindly took me back to the inn and I had to miss the rest of the day's festivities."

"How much did you take?" Rhazii asked.

"Only a couple of mouthfuls."

"Just as well," Janius added through the latter end of a mouthful of food. "Plenty of non-Khajiit take moon sugar to get used to skooma and it ruins their lives. I doubt we would have let Fendros get addicted, but...well, it's potent stuff, Rhazii. Stay away from it if you want to stay sane and well."

"Yes, uncle," Rhazii didn't hesitate to answer, curling his lips.

On the other side of the campfire, Lunise listened on and looked to Sabine with a slow, realising nod. "I can only assume that a foundation in alchemy would provide a different perspective on traditional magic."

Sabine spoke more confidently than before. "Most of my experimentation time has either been in testing new ingredients or researching the enemy's gas weapons. But I have had...an idea recently. I do not know if it could work. I would have to find some rare reagents to even try." Sabine turned her eyes down and pushed her hair above her brow to the side of her head. "The spell to open portals. You need too much magicka and control to do it with alchemy. But transporting...light, as in Ayleid constructs of light, could be done. If you opened up that type of portal to go one way to you it would be like looking through a window to the portal destination." Sabine leaned her head to one side, stretching. "It is only an idea, though."