340 Potential Asset.

"I am?" Hal asked with his eyes wide.

When Karmen and Arya had first told him through their telepathic link that the Alchemist Organization was searching for him, Hal had not really cared all that much and was not averse to them wasting their time if they so wished.

The way he saw it, they were doing it as a courtesy to his 'Alchemy master' Nadia and for that reason, he did not see why he should give it any further thought. 

But now that the Branch head had spoken to him so amicably end even allowed him to call him by his name which he was sure was not exactly a normal occurrence, he began to suspect there was something else at play.

'What could have caused the change' he thought and his eyes finally fell for the second time since he had entered this room, on Glenn who had been his examiner during the tests.

He nearly smacked himself as he saw what it was that had been right in front of him and yet he had missed.