Go Zoana! Seeing this sequence, something just occurred to me. Zoana was brought to the kingdom because she is an alchemist and the king is sick (I tried to go back to check it out, but the page numbers are borked up somehow…once you get past Ch1 Cover, it takes you right into Chapter 2 with Katherine having her nightmare…archive link perhaps?). Is Katherine “just” a magician (or someone trained in the magic arts), or is she actually an alchemist, too, since she did acknowledge that she had trained in the “four eastern and four western” elements. If so, why would she not try to heal the king herself? Is there something else “shady” lurking in her background, or is she simply not an alchemist and therefore unable to heal the king? Curiouser and curiouser, but loving the story!!