Nevin stared at the jars in his basement and let out a long, aggravated sigh. Since he had quietly begun revealing his blood magic to people, he had been using blood potions more and more frequently in his shops. It went over well - astonishingly well in fact, as the potions were more effective than what he made with his normal methods. But there was a downside to this - he was now running quite low on his stores of animal blood.

Which meant, it was now time to gather more. But he needed more than what he would normally gather himself - he would need help. Well, he did have Ezra as his apprentice now - it would be a good time to introduce her to the fact that he was a blood mage, he felt it was time for her to know this fact about himself. But would the two of them be enough? He doubted it. No. They would go to one of the local bars and see if there was someone willing to help them. Elthas and Sketch weren't in town right now or he might have gone to them to recruit their aid, but as it was, he couldn't take the time to wait for them.

So he headed outside, paying one of the town kids to run to Nan's place to find Ezra and let her know where he was going to be, and asking her to meet him there. The child happily accepted the payment of two candies and ran off, waving at Nevin as they took off. That done, Nevin headed off himself, making his way to the nearby bar that he'd gone to before.