Alchemy Magic

To start it uses something known as alchemy which is a form of magic in a way but it is also something that was also considered to be real and was used during medieval times. Which leads into how there was someone known as Dee somebody the two main characters meet is talking about how he had found ways to live for ever. This is shown on page thirty it had him saying “I became the greatest alchemyst of all time, sought after by kings and princes, by emperors and even the Pope himself. I discovered the secret of the philosopher’s stone hidden deep in that book of ancient magic: I learned how to turn ordinary metal into gold, how to change common stones into precious jewels. But more than this, much more, I found the recipe for a formulation of herbs and spells that keep disease and death at bay” (30). So alchemy is a form of magic because it takes an item like a stone and magically turns it into something like a ruby or a emerald. This is used by the other throughout the book making it so this man who has been wanted and been chased after for all these thousands of years by emperors and princes because he can

Where one of the main characters states how it is extremely hot outside because in the beginning of the story there are three men out in the blazing sun wearing trench coats. So in the book it has sophie look over at the thermometer and think “ Sophie New man glanced at the clock and thermometer on the wall over the counter behind her. “it's two-fifteen here . . . and eighty-one degrees””(4). So San Francisco is a very hot place from someone in trench coats to just be casually walking around. Showing you how there are some weird things going on then sophie notices how they are heading over to her brothers work where things begin to get even weirder. When they then met Dee the man who could live forever if he had what he