Blood of the Dead, page 23
Poor little moth. Wait until I show you something to truly be scared of.
I set the jar down on the table and sent it skidding in her direction. “Use this on your hand and wrists. They’ll heal in time.”
She took it, frowning, and hid it beneath the table in her lap. “What now?” she asked, clearly thinking the worst of me.
I had given her no reason not to—and I was thinking it myself.
But I had already pushed fate far enough tonight. I jerked my chin at the staircase she’d entered by. “Go back down. A door will be open that wasn’t before. You may sleep there rather than the dungeon for as long as you please me.”
Her eyes looked everywhere but mine, scanning the room endlessly for exits. “Please you how?” she finally asked softly, staring at her reflection on my table.
“You’ll know when you get there,” I told her, departing.
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