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Kimblee awoke a couple of hours later with a small groan. Sapphire put down her tea cup and strode over to him.
“You drugged me.” the alchemist muttered, “I should kill you, you drugged me, why can’t I kill you?”
“Because you knew you needed that, it’s the first time you’ve slept all week.” Sapphire replied as she watched her ward slowly sit up.
Kimblee looked over at Roy and Cali, “I apologize for passing out like that, Mustang.”
“Well…I suppose it was better for your health.” Roy said.
“Really! If you haven’t slept all week it’s good you were finally able to get some rest!” Cali chirped, infinitely more forgiving than her ward was.
“Yes but we were talking about…something and then right in the middle of my sentence I went unconscious,” Kimblee looked back at Sapphire, “you know how much I hate being interrupted.”
“Tough cookies Stringbean, you needed a nap.” the blue healer smirked.
Kimblee just rolled his eyes and attempted to rake his fingers through his hair, only to find it still mussed from his impromptu slumber. With a little huff he removed his hair tie in preparation of re-doing his ponytail.
“Sapphire could you grab drawings from the mine and my notebook from the study?” he asked.
“What notebook? There’s ten in there, last I counted at least.” Sapphire grumbled.
“The brown one I’m always writing in.”
“You mean that one I tried to read over your shoulder and you told me I'd be blown all the way back to Amestris if I tried again?” Sapphire grinned.
“Yes, that notebook.” Kimblee confirmed with a snap of the elastic hair tie. Then he looked at Roy, “The entire time I’ve been working at the mine I’ve been noticing little…drawings, on the walls, in the older sections of the tunnels. There’s plenty of it, most of it just graffiti, but there were a few that looked…like alchemy. You were a State Alchemist longer than I was, Mustang, maybe you could help me shed some light on what someone was doing to the mines before-“ he looked down with a heavy sigh.
Luckily, that’s when Sapphire returned with several large scrolls of paper in one paw and a worn, leather bound notebook in her beak. She set the scrolls on the coffee table and took the notebook out of her mouth, handing it to Kimblee.
“You looked inside, didn’t you?” Kimblee asked as he wiped griffin spit off the binding.
“Of course I did.” Sapphire said, hopping up on the couch to sit next to him, “I don’t know why you wanted it though, it’s just an old invoice from when you were being taught by that fireworks guy.”
“No it’s not.” Roy and Cali said in unison.
“Jinx!” Cali said quickly before taking another sip of tea.
“What do you know fluffball?” Sapphire asked.
“Roy keeps a similar notebook, in the guise of a datebook.” Cali blushed. “He’s going to have to find a new code soon.”
“It’s an alchemy thing,” Kimblee said as he leafed through the pages, “we all keep our notes in code. This invoice is a code for anything related to my alchemy, from the tattoos on my hands to the stuff I’m using in the mines. I put the formula for Trisha’s ring in here too.” He pointed at a section that read:

Star: purple 2, red 3, gold 6.  Peony: blue 12, yellow 1, red 8, silver 4.
The full title: Sapphire's Redemption: The Mad Chimera Master of Tin Town. A name styled in the form of a Blue Blink episode, here we see our two protected alchemists in the same room, and a call back to one of the last chapters of the first story! 

I just needed to write something before my brain congealed into an uninspired, amorphous blob of uncreativity. 

I've had a head canon for a while now that Kim's notebook code is written like an invoice/fireworks recipe. He developed it under his tutelage as a fireworks purveyor and didn't see the point in changing something that was working for him. 

Fun fact: There is a type of firework called a ring but that would be too obvious now wouldn't it? 

And just what did happen in the mine? Where is Trisha, Kimblee's beloved wife? :fear: revamp Stay tuned for the premier of Sapphire's Redemption 2! 
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I'm really impatient to read the sequel 
Keep doing your great work :)