The Lotus Thief novel · Chapter 19 of 32
Chapter 19: The Physician's Word
Krit left with Khem and the guards went out with them.
There was one left at the door.
Bua stood by the window with his back to the room.
Ton sat down on the floor because his legs were done.
The King slept.
He slept for maybe an hour.
Ton watched him the whole time.
The chest went up and down. The hands lay still on the coverlet.
There was nothing wrong with him that Ton could see.
That was the problem.
A poisoned man has a smell. It comes out of the mouth and the skin, faint, sour, different depending on the poison.
Ton had smelled it a hundred times in the market.
This room smelled of lamp oil and clean linen and nothing else.
Bua turned around.
"What are you doing?"
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