The Poison Master Knocks Every Night With the Antidote novel · Chapter 21 of 24
Chapter 21: The Last Dose
Jae-ryeong did not wait for the hour of the rat.
He went across the snow with his greatsword in his hand and his knife in his belt.
The Hall's tent glowed green from inside.
Four black-robed men stood at the flap.
They did not stop him.
That was how he knew it was a trap, and he walked in anyway.
Seol lay on a low black table in the middle of the floor.
His wrists and ankles were strapped with silk cord.
A hollow needle stood in each forearm, and two glass tubes ran from them into a white basin on the floor.
The basin was nearly full.
His hair hung off the edge of the table, silver at the roots and black at the tips, in the green light.
His eyes were open, and they found Jae-ryeong at once.
"Idiot," Seol said, and his lips had no color left. "I told you to keep away."
"You said twenty minutes."
Master Mo sat on a cushion at the head of the table, pouring tea.
He set down the pot with a small, contented click.
"Lord Han. Punctual. Your father was always late."
"Let him go."
"Presently."
Mo laid one finger against a silver needle that was already pressed into the hollow at the base of Seol's skull.
"I must ask you not to come closer. One push and he is gone in a breath. I would rather he went in the proper way."
Jae-ryeong stopped.
The sword shook in his hand.
"Forty-nine nights is such a long time," Mo said, kindly. "I have been telling him so."
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