Do you think I'd be able to use the formula, if I don't have power to put behind it?

[Alchemy without magic is chemistry, which Hector has less knowledge of.

He also still suspects that Sokie finds the idea of him in eyeliner amusing.]

Yes, it's the worst, but the sciences were in shambles on my home world. It's part of why I went to work with the vampires. Lord Dracula had preserved the true sciences within his keep while the rest of the world fell to darkness.