In the small, neatly organized shop, between shelves and racks, Nevin sighed as he rearranged the bottles that lined the shelves of his store. Of late his clientele had gotten even more unruly and unsavory, and he had shifted to making more and more poisons. Thankfully they were normally kept behind shutters until a later point in the night - during the early hours of the evening, when families and kids would come in, the cabinets the poisons were in remained locked up, keeping their contents from sight. Now however, it was reaching into the deeper hours of the night, almost eleven, and he was unlocking and arranging the poison cabinets as he prepared for the rougher clientele to come in.
Most of the things on the shelves were a variety of simple poisons, one or two poisonous ingredients that would do a variety of things. From potions that would cause pain, to nausea or other illnesses, all the way to those that could cause more permanent harm. The most dangerous ones - those guaranteed to kill most victims, such as potent neurotoxins - were locked up even now, kept in the back with him, where someone couldn't just reach out and kill themselves by accident. Alongside these poisons, most also had an antidote sitting beside them - or an emetic, if there was no direct antidote. It spoke of the kind of customers that normally came in at this time of night that while the poisons had been selling at a steady enough rate, Nevin had had to change out some of the antidotes as they passed their effective usage dates.
With things organized once more to his liking, the redhead alchemist moved back to his counter and flipped back open his notebook. He began writing in it almost absently, passing thoughts and notes as he turned things over in his mind. There were many things that were tickling at the back of the blood mage's thoughts, but for now he couldn't actually concentrate on any of them well enough to bring them into direct focus. To match this, the things that he was writing down tended to ramble along, with little cohesion between one line and the next.
