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Chapter 5, Scene 3:


 * Hanne's met up with Puerick again; she's received a report on the liquid she wanted him to examine. The day after Hanne reunited with Heidemarie, she met him and asked him to analyze the liquid.


 * Puerick: "Crikey, you've brought something quite interesting." He hands the bottle of liquid to Hanne while scratching his head.


 * Hanne: "So, did you get any results? Was the liquid poison?" Puerick made a small, downcast groan.


 * Puerick: "How should I put this...... A toxin was definitely detected in the liquid."


 * Hanne: "! So then"


 * Puerick: "However, for me to make the final determination that it's poison would be somewhat."


 * Hanne: "And what's that supposed to mean?"


 * Puerick: "First, let's answer the question of why it's red liquid........ based on the chemicals, it seems to be the "body fluid" of some animal."


 * Hanne: "Body fluid?"


 * Puerick: "To say it more precisely: It's blood."


 * Hanne didn't think of associating the two at first and the narration indicates she questions why a mage is carrying blood instead of poison or drugs. But since it's a mage, it is "plausble" that that would be the case.


 * Puerick: "But this is slightly different from normal "blood". According to your story, it seems that it had been left there fore time, but its coagulation has nevertheless barely progressed. The surface of that blood is something that should gradually harden when exposed to open air. Even in a small vial like this, it should be so. However, this blood remains silky. Such a thing would normally be impossible....... But there's no mistake that the components are blood."


 * Hanne: "For example, if there was an unknown creature that you Doctor don't know of, wouldn't you consider it to be the blood of such an organism?"


 * Puerick: "I guess there is that possibility. Or rather, its unexplainable otherwise." He goes onto explain that he can't currently determine whether or not it's poison because blood, like with meat, creates poison when it rots. I can't make out the specifics (whether he believes it's rotting, not rotting, or uncertain of it), but that's the end result.


 * Hanne can't really dispute the analysis of the region's greatest expert in medicine. Hanne didn't even try to hide her disappointment for having to go back to the drawing board.


 * In response to her expression, Puerick apologizes for not being able to help her and she says it was unavoidable. As she says it being found to be blood alone is (....), she goes into that and thinks how, for a Demon of Sin, making blood into poison wouldn't seem to be a stretch.

I got 3.5 pages left to work on here. Half way done with the scene. Will edit this post with the rest later on.