‘It doesn’t matter,’ Laila replied, reaching into the folds of her tunic to pull out a handful of blood-stained vials. ‘Someone beat you to it. Whoever set the Weepers loose took the time to administer contaminated blood to some of our humans first. We think they might have been trying to vaccinate their own, to protect them from the Weeper virus.’ ‘Either that or they were hoping you wouldn’t notice that your Attendants were contaminated. You could’ve

