"Belkan tradition?" Ed said, looking puzzled. He'd never heard of that. There were different traditions of alchemy of course. Xing called it pharmacy and tended towards healing with it, while other alchemists kept to small unobtrusive things; hedgewitches they were sometimes called. But this 'Belkan' tradition...

"Well," he began, with slight trepidaiton. "I have someone coming to my room tonight so I can teach him. You could always come too? I can at least show you how it works, although this place blocks powers."