White Gull is a strange brew -- translucent and with a faint scent that's both medicinal and sweet, under the sharper, nose-singing quality of really strong alcohol. Still, there isn't anything about it that marks it as having any particularly magical properties.
The indifference would be infuriating, but it's more intriguing instead, the self-assured confidence something Lambert hadn't expected from the man at first glance. He sort of ignores the question at first, watching him like a hawk while he drinks it all. After a few seconds pass and Childermass neither drops he laughs (loudly) and pounds the table with the flat of his palm.
"You're one tough bastard, Childermass." Judging from the tone of his voice, that's clearly meant as a compliment, not that he cares if Childermass takes it as one, and he skips right back to answering the question like he wasn't interrupted.
"A lot of magical components don't dissolve properly in water, and that's not going to work. A solution and a suspension do completely different things. So you use alcohol instead." There, like it's obvious.
"Or say you need to extract something from a raw material, but you can't heat it or break it apart to do that. Almost any really strong alcohol will work, but some are better than others."
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The indifference would be infuriating, but it's more intriguing instead, the self-assured confidence something Lambert hadn't expected from the man at first glance. He sort of ignores the question at first, watching him like a hawk while he drinks it all. After a few seconds pass and Childermass neither drops he laughs (loudly) and pounds the table with the flat of his palm.
"You're one tough bastard, Childermass." Judging from the tone of his voice, that's clearly meant as a compliment, not that he cares if Childermass takes it as one, and he skips right back to answering the question like he wasn't interrupted.
"A lot of magical components don't dissolve properly in water, and that's not going to work. A solution and a suspension do completely different things. So you use alcohol instead." There, like it's obvious.
"Or say you need to extract something from a raw material, but you can't heat it or break it apart to do that. Almost any really strong alcohol will work, but some are better than others."