Sydney was glad to meet Christian - he was one person she was pretty sure wasn't looking down on her currently. So she flashed him a friendly smile of greeting.
"I'm not an Alchemidt anymore, you know," she said. At least, she wasn't officially. Parts of her upbringing would always be in her blood - there was no changing that. But she was certain the Alchemists now had her on some worst-case-scenario list for falling in love with and actually marrying an evil creature of the night. Even if thinking of Adrian Ivashkov as an evil creature of the night was one of the most ridiculous things she'd ever heard. He was way too much of a brat to be evil.
"But I think his kind of alchemy is different anyway,"
It seemed like magic, something else that Alchemists strictly denied could ever happen with humans.
"Ahh," she laughed. "Making recipe cards for your bacon-wrapped meatloaf then?"