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He was allowed to sleep in an unused bedroom, then pushed outside the door at dawn.
Brogan did not want him weakening her barrier any longer with his “strange energies” as she put it.
She kept calling him an alchemist for the rest of the visit, and it made Elias feel uncomfortable. Brogan was kind and interesting but frightening. He was glad to leave.
As he mounted his horse, she came after him with a wrapped gift and told him he had no need to visit Bradley King. The package was for her apprentice Willem in the Netherlands, who would see him to the end of his journey.
He asked if that meant Willem was to be taking him to Russia, but Brogan refused to clarify. She squeezed his shoe affectionately, because his hand was a bit too high for her to reach. Then she left him, like all the others.