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Part 1 of Chapter 4, Scene 3:


 * Many of the old shamans that had become the basis for medicine were followers of Held and would wear Held's insignia embroidered on the robes they sometimes wore.


 * The ancestors of the owner of the Ra Bura pharamacy seemed to have been one of these shamans as, sure enough, there was an insignia to Held in the corner on the tapestry decorating the store.


 * Egmont: "Pharmacists and shamansThename has changed but what they isn't that different." He explains that it's really just so that the business can get approved and be taxed, probably to limit the sales of poisons too.


 * Hanne showed him her notes when asking about the specific limitations for that. He explains that poison buyers always have to fill in their name and purpose in the ledger they keep there. If you put a false name, you're already subject to penalization, and you don't sell them to minors or prostitutes.


 * Hanne asks if anyone's recently bought poison and he says "like it says here" that they're mostly hunters (making traps or poison darts). Then there's farmers who buy it to euthanize diseased livestock.


 * Hanne asks about any doctors and Egmont questions if she meant Dr. Felix and says he could buy it for research or to euthanize patients. It doesn't seem there's any history of him purchasing any poison though for the past year.


 * He notes the docotor seemed to neglect his health and hopes for his safe recovery, since it affects his business. He sighs.


 * Narration notes he's the only pharmacy in town and losing Marx would be a big impact on his sales.


 * Hanne brings up that she heard the Dr.'s daughter bought supplies from here too and Egmont admit she has too. He then sighs,


 * Hanne asks what's the issue and he says he can only sell her the raw materials and not the actual medicine, as she lacks a doctor's license (I think? This conversation gets confusing on who's speaking). He notes this is Elphegort's law (then a small statement on Beelzenia, but I'm not sure if it's to reinforce the point or contrast it).


 * Hanne questions what he thinks Margarita would be formulating and he suggests that, it's only his guess, but (and he says it with a low undertone) that it would be to cure her illness. Egmont sugggest she might've been trying to make some sleeping pills that would let her sleep.


 * Hanne drops the Greeonian Plateau Roses Julia mentioned but Egmont shakes his head and explain that it's poison and, like he said before, he wont' sell poison to minors. He's never sold that to her.


 * Hanne asks if he perhaps sold them to anyone else in Toragay and he flatly replied that he didn't. Egmont then suggests she check outside of Toragay for people selling them, perhaps in Aceid.


 * Hanne then mentions how she's heard of someone claimg to be a mage coming in and out of there and wondered if he sold any medicines or poisons to her.


 * Egmont mentions there was someone like that, wearing a hood in the middle of the day. He somehow felt she was a nasty woman but because she was an acquaintance of the Marquis, no one said anything.


 * He expresses his surprise the world police didn't suspect she's the criminal and that everyone thinks that she may have killed the Marquis.... at least, that's what he's heard. But a poison and a medicine? It'd be the first he'd heard of such a thing (I think.....)


 * Hanne notes how she's been coming in and out of the Marquis' home a lot and Egmont wonders if she's looking for her. He can't seem to remember seeing her lately, then suddenly recalls that he did see the woman and Margarita walking together many months ago and (I think) overheard that they were going towards the charity institute


 * Hanne's surprised but concedes to going and then Egmont brings up that he's been waiting for her to buy something and wonders if she'd like something to help keep the "beauty" from coming to ruin, offering a syrup to help take away her tiredness.


 * Hanne was "defeated" by Egmont's push and felt half-obligated to buy the medicine. He then states "50 evus".


 * Hanne: (That's a lot!!) It's the same price as a first class inn per night in Aceid. She decides to go along with it, if it really works (and Egmont keeps overselling it). Avoiding his (apparently) vulgar comments, she received it and drank it on her way to the orphanage. She dislikes the taste and hopes it'll work.