In the version I tell, she’s a mix, like Mithridates who drank all that poison so it wouldn’t hurt him while he was exiled, and then returned and killed everyone. She’s half defending herself, half burning the world down. Sometimes I add to Shirin’s story by having her do the same thing. She was paranoid that someone would poison her like she did to Maryam, so little by little she made herself immune. And then my twist in the last scene is that she drinks a whole cup to kill herself and nothing happens.
