Is it just me or the story is starting to get more and more nonsensical? Not that it was great from the beginning, but the story jumps, the info-dumps, and the deux-ex machinas are getting on my nerves.
Why would a bloke report to the church about medicine being given for free, asking for an equivalent medicine as payment? He ought to have just drunk the free one instead. Or at least have asked for gold.
What protective clothing? That cut clearly reached her skin (and left it unblemished)
@feha, the dude knew that the free medicine was related to witches, witches are prosecuted by church, therefore, if he was sufficiently religious, it wouldn't be strange for him to take his chances with the church rather than the "demonic witches".