Chapter 16 Poisoned

• The waystation was little more than a single stone room with a cold hearth and a few dusty shelves, but it had four walls and a door that locked, and right now that was worth more to Kael than any palace could have been.
• "Fire," he said, laying Elara down on the room's single narrow cot with a care that belied the frantic edge in his voice. "Dax, get a fire going. Vey, check those shelves — anything that looks medicinal, anything at all."
• "On it." Vey was already moving, pulling jars down and reading labels by touch in the dark.