Ian and Scott left the Alchemy Workshop that had started its preliminary operations, and from then on, Ian would return daily to inspect the progress.
It wasn't that he feared the workers would slack off, but rather he was concerned they might erroneously believe they understood the mechanisms they didn't grasp and produce a sample with an imbalanced structure, necessitating a start from scratch, which would be troublesome indeed.
Before leaving, Ian looked at the expressions of the alchemy artisans who were smiling because they had work once again, and he couldn't help feeling a bit conflicted.
——Is it only in the most chaotic of times, and the most orderly of occasions, that humans crave work?
In tumultuous times, work represents order and stability. In orderly times, work symbolizes self-actualization and dreams.
