[ As the wind chime is summoned to Stephen, the strands of magic continue to quiver as Amelia continues to speak. ]

I tried to scale back my involvement in school activities outside of my immediate courses just to give more attention to the matter at hand, but with varying success. Apologies for taking a while.

[ There's another sound that emits from the chime; viscous liquid, swishing back and forth. ]

The bad news is that there are leftovers as I've feared and it tried to feed on dreams to regain a physical form.

The good news is that my more reliable contacts and freelancers, have been able to gather the fragments for me and I've got like, a mason jar's worth of liquid demon. It didn't go any further out of state lines as far as we could tell.

[ So all in all, she's done a decent job protecting what's around her and not totally by herself. And finally...! ]

The normal news is now I'm wondering if it's possible to drink this and if that's ethically sound.

[ Amelia... ]