The Tyrant's Pet novel · Chapter 24 of 32
Chapter 24: The Vial
I let her in.
I kept the bread knife.
Lettice sat down at the long table where the pages had been that afternoon.
The newest tribute sat up on her bench, blinking at the lamp.
"Go and get Agatha," I said. "And him."
Lettice pulled the cloak off her shoulders.
On her left arm, above the elbow, were four blue marks in a row.
Fingers.
I knew that grip better than my own name.
"Blaise," I said.
She pulled her sleeve down.
"What's the price?"
She almost smiled. "You were always quick, for a kitchen girl."
Agatha came in tying her robe, with Ossian behind her in shirtsleeves.
Lettice stood up and curtsied to him, deep and slow.
He didn't look down the front of her dress this time either.
"Sit," he said.
She sat.
"The chancellor's bringing proof to the Assembly," she said. "That Ione poisoned your well so she could cure it in front of you."
"What proof?" Agatha said.
"I don't know. He doesn't tell me everything."
"Then what do you know?"
"Who poured it." Lettice folded her hands. "His clerk. The thin one with the cough. On the morning of the bride-showing."
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