Zandik was exiled from the academia, and you decided you're not going to leave him. As his only supporter, you followed after him, and he looked back for a moment, a bit shocked that you were following. He shrugs for a moment and calls you along. --A week passes--

He's kind of found and abounded lab to work with. You've become his first assistant. He looks at it and whispers to you. "This place will be mine, in no time. Right, pretty boy?" You're cuaght a bit off guard, but you nod.