#it is. so he wasnt dissuaded by Lena saying so too but was still surprised by what it entailed in practice and it having the mag info)

[alderjayne]

If Celia researching alchemy isn't an entirely new development, I wonder if seeing all the OIAR's imagery made her think she might find something helpful working there.

Someone in a terrible magical situation looking for information to fix it just 'happening' across a job of listening to terrible magical situations is an Interesting coincidence. She's raising a baby. I don't doubt she needed *a* job. But I also wouldn't be surprised if there's a reason this one caught her eye.

Or maybe the other way around? She believes the OIAR's cases are true, and she can see it has a lot of alchemical theming, so she thought looking into alchemy might give her a lead. With working for the OIAR in the first place just being intuition or coincidence or some other reason.