“Hey. How long were you dosing my vodka?” “The whole time, Baru. From that first bottle we shared. I had to know how you’d react.” “You needed to know how I’d react to rye ergot and vidhara? Vidhara’s an aphrodisiac, Svir.” “Anything to get you to do something for yourself. Something he didn’t want.” “I thought the idea was to give me a seizure. So you could blackmail me.” “That too.” He shot her a tired, twisted smile. “I am a cryptarch. Plots within plots.”
