Chapter 66: Studying the Pill Furnace

Salvatore Casson couldn't sleep; his mind kept circling back to the pill furnace. Once everyone turned in, he quietly hauled it into his room and started studying its build. Samuel Looske had left notes on the furnace in his pill-refining method. Using those, Salvatore spent an hour or two and got the furnace down pat. He already knew which step used which mechanism, and what each one did. At last, he opened the furnace and took out a stack of pill recipes. He counted nine in total. Each recipe...