Fieldnotesmagic Stories

Hermeitis returns to the alley where the soup once screamed, seeking an impossible artifact: a coin that never lands. The price? A sample of condensed ambiguity-property of the town alchemist. There, he meets an earnest apprentice named Aven, who insists on overseeing the transaction. It goes... well. Technically. No one died. The coin is obtained. The apprentice now questions reality. Field-tested bartering. Alchemical ethics. And a coin.