Chapter Four
“That smells delicious, dear girl,” said Igraine. “You missed your calling as a chef.”
If the culinary art had ever called her, Morgan hadn’t heard it correctly. Mixing ingredients fascinated her. But the inedible elements were more her style, and she preferred a single Bunsen burner over a stovetop.
Morgan had begun mixing chemicals before she’d learned her first spell. Alchemy was an acceptable practice in the witching world, but not science. Still both magic and science had roots in alchemy. Alchemists were the first to group the world’s substances into material groups like wet and dry, and then earth, fire, water, and air, and later alkaline and acid. These groupings would come to make up the properties upon which the Periodic Table of Elements was organized. It was als
