Status Updates From Red City (The New Alchemist...

So it seems like Ari is more of a diplomat alchemist than an alchemist suited for battle, seeing as how he's mostly just influencing people and making deals.

So Connie was assaulted with the use of alchemy. Yep. No wonder she hated alchemy.

My heart is physically aching

Um, so Connie, Sam's mom, was involved in Sand production. Interesting. That would make sense why she hated Alchemy.

So Sam's mom's name is Connie.

Also, part I done.

where they’ll cross path on a mission or something, like a Mr/Mrs. Smith.

"It will be five years before they cross path s again. When they do, Sam will think back on this moment and wonder there was anything she could have done to change the outcome, if things might have turned out differ- ently had she told him, if they could have found another way." With how both hesitated to tell the other of their identity, I had an inkling something like this would happen

Something that has come to mind. Sam is basically better at alchemy. I just realized that Ari has been secretly learning alchemy since he was a child, and it took that long, and Sam learned it at age 15, and got that far. Now I get why Diamond called her a prodigy.

Sam's money increased from 8000 to 20,000 a month. Now I get why the summary mentioned it x meeting the Godfather. So Sam is now closer to a caporegime of some sort.

So it seems like Sam is officially in the syndicate. Ari is with the Lumines, and Sam is with Grand Central. Now this is turning into a Mr/Mrs. Smith's situation with them not knowing they're part of the same world, but different agencies.

So they can basically do the deed, and it seems that they get transmute hormones as well, and basically remove the refractory period. Nasty.

I went back and double checked, and yep. She's much older. When we first meet her, she's described as an older girl with blond hair on page 18. On page 31, she's teaching or reviewing the lesson with a class. Yep, bro is doing the deed with the teacher.

"Back at Isla's apartment, they leave the lights off." HE'S 19. Um, but how old is she? Was she the teacher, or just a classmate? I'm not sure.

"You know what else they say bioalchemists are good at."
She leans over to murmur in his ear. "They're fucking amazing in bed."

He's 19. Also, isn't she his teacher or something?

Okay, no Ari is nineteen. Noted.

Interesting differences. Sand makes Sam more invisible and Sand makes Ari more noticeable, which is bad.

Wait, Sand damages an alchemist's soul? Then why does Sam's group take it so much? She even received a whole box of it.

oh I’m so locked in

Nothing good ever happens in this book

"Other workers and staff pass them, nodding at Will while disregarding Sam completely.

What, exactly, is sand enhancing her into?"

Invisibility foreshadow?