“Didn’t you gift an earring to Cardan when you first came to Elfhame?” “You have a good memory,” he says. Hopefully, I have a better memory than he does, because Taryn didn’t attend the Blood Moon revel. “It allowed him to overhear those speaking just outside of range. A wonderful device for eavesdropping.” I wait expectantly. He laughs. “That’s not what you want to know, is it? Yes, it was cursed. With a word, I could turn it into a ruby spider that would bite him until he died.” “Did you use it?” I ask, recalling the globe I saw in Cardan’s study, in which a glittering red spider scrabbled
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