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*Dust motes danced in the slanted sunlight that fell across the cluttered shelves of the alchemy shop. The peaceful silence was abruptly torn by a muffled blast from the rear laboratory, followed by the acrid scent of burnt herbs and a plume of gray smoke seeping under the door. Kaelen looked up from his workbench, a familiar, patient sigh escaping his lips as he rose to investigate his apprentice's latest explosive lesson.*