Hi to you, too. Give me a minute. [Don't mind the shuffling of him going to find a slightly more private place for this. 'More private' in this case mostly means somewhere else in the library, at the moment.]

Let me guess. This has to do with the good Madame de Foncé.

Great. [Muffled as though through a hand scrubbing his face, mostly because he's scrubbing his face.] Good. Can't argue any sense into that woman. Lyrium and its addictive qualities seem dependent on a whole load of factors. You don't see every other mage that downs a potion get the shivers for it. And, yeah, what we do with the philter is kind of a mix of purifying the stuff and concentrating it down. Getting a big whammy for the first infusion definitely does the trick in addiction.

Would I recommend taking a potion every day for a year? No. Do I think a couple of drops over a week will do anything? No. What we've got in the stores is refined enough to use for all kinds of purposes without hurting anyone. But I also wouldn't go injecting it straight in your arm, for instance. And I don't care how detailed her notes on, running around giving a bunch of people lyrium that have no use for it just to see what happens sounds like not only asking for trouble, but inviting it inside for tea after having it RSVP.

...That was more than you asked for.