I heard a noise outside the door. “That will be Cob, coming to catch me in the act of poisoning you,” I surmised. I rose, went to the door, and opened it. Kettricken pushed past me into the room. I closed the screen quickly behind her. “He’s come to poison you,” she warned Rurisk. “I know,” he said gravely. “He put it in my wine. That’s why I’m drinking his.”
