14 Liz stirred the mixture as Regina stood back and watched the culmination of three months of experiments. When the dour woman first arrived, she hadn’t seemed like she wanted to be there. But the worst of her personality seemed to slough off with each passing day as they worked on alchemy projects and lessons. Liz had been debating getting Kurt to send the woman away at first since she had been so ornery. It hadn’t helped her own attitude that Matt was off-planet working with Erwin, Achlys, and Luna to make rifts. He had been so excited to leave to go create rifts other people would use that she hadn’t even thought about what being planets away would mean. They were completely uncontactable in anything but the slowest means, as messages had to be routed to all the planets in the regi

