E: "Even now, despite piecing it all together, I find it difficult to believe you had no hesitation when you became the first sapient test subject for your titan elixir."

V: "I was desperate, detective. Alchemy was my only skill and area of interest. Even after leaving Oplentis, it was hard for me to make friends. I had built up too many walls. Your therapists could only do so much."

E: "And so you decided to delve into the one thing that you were passionate about, hoping it would give you a solution."

V: "Yes. At the end of the day, it did."

E: "No regrets?"

V: "Plenty of them, detective. But making that potion, using it, isn't one of them."

- Excerpt from an interview between Rabrandt "Enigma" Cyanis and Volpes of Oplentis, several months into the latter's rehabilitation.

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Thanks so much to  Nightarm for this lovely YCH. It fit Volpes's backstory too well to pass up.

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