The next day, while Althea was in her lab in the Research Center with her master, she received the complete analysis of the drugs, as well as their cross-checking with their database.
"It's from the Opain, but very much concentrated," her assistant, Gus, told her.[1] He looked a bit impressed as he looked at the test tube.
One had to know—and this was something they learned and confirmed after months of experimentation—that creating concentrations like this was not so easy in Xeno.
After all, there was an extra thing called Aether that seemed to have a certain binding effect that was difficult to predict before it was thoroughly studied.
She looked at the concentration inside the test tube. "Whoever isolated and prepared it is a very skilled chemist."
Opain, in fact, was a plant that even Alterra had been using for a while—though primarily for pain killers and anaesthesia.
