Chapter 11 · free to read
A consultation, she called it. The physicians' hall had a word for what happens when a healer walks into a great lady's courtyard alone, and it was not consultation.
She could not have him disappear now. A physician who vanishes from a private courtyard is a rumour. A physician who vanishes from a rival consort's household is a case.
I had walked in to save a witness. I walked out having handed my murderer the one thread that could unravel me — and she had not even had to pull it. I had flinched.
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