[ It would be out of character for Lambert not to make at least one uncomfortable joke in a given conversation, after all. If not about this, then it would have just been about something else ... ]

Hah. You say that, but alcohol's actually a pretty useful thing in alchemy. It dissolves a lot of things water won't, and your gut absorbs it into the bloodstream faster. S'why it ends up as a base for most witcher potions.

[ Of course, said potions are also typically not drinkable by the average human as well, since the recipes were developed with efficiency more than palatability in mind ... having caught himself rambling, Lambert makes a face. ]

Maybe you should take over. I'm starting to sound like Vesemir.