much you hate your brother. While you, Sejanus, are my very dear friend, whom I will keep by my side even if I were to turn out every other attendant.” Sejanus paled. His disdainful smile faded. “I poisoned the lethium,” he said suddenly, forcefully. “What?” The king raised an eyebrow, as if he’d heard incorrectly. “I put the quinalums in the lethium. I have a friend who is a priest. He got the powder, and I added it to the lethium yesterday.” The king asked, “Now, why would you do that?” “I hate you,” Sejanus answered, as if he were reciting the lines in a play. “You have no right to the
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