Swallowing thickly, I croaked, “H-how do you know it will work?” Lilimar cleared her throat awkwardly. “Seis made me poison him several weeks ago. So that we could be sure.” My head snapped up, gaze shooting to Seis, who gave me a tiny smile. I thought I would pass out as a maelstrom of emotions threatened to drown me. Shock. Disbelief. Fury. “How dare you, Seis?” My voice wobbled. “What if it hadn’t worked? What if you had died?” “We had to be sure, Moric,” he said quietly. “I wanted to do it for you both.”
