Solenn understood three important, complicated, and terrifying things at once. She had just perceived flavor like a Chef, like one with a peculiar empathetic ability, endowed by Gyst. Chef skills ran in families. The royalty of Braiz had had none in five hundred years of tracked lineage. That meant her family had somehow concealed their Chef skills—which seemed highly unlikely—or one of her parents was not truly her blood parent. And right here, right now, someone was attempting to murder Rupert by poison. She could not warn him verbally, or he—and soon afterward, all of court—would know the
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