All right. [She leans back and sighs.] In fairness to your curse of truth, I have to admit that as a healer, I'm never going to be completely reassured when someone tells me that it's okay for him to poison himself because he's had practice.

[She's sure he believes truly he's in no danger because he can't even tell a white lie right now. But you know what? Accidents happen. Accidents happen with food, never mind poison. Those fears aren't going to be at rest!]

You have done a remarkable job at keeping anyone from even guessing that you've lived the kind of life where you are constantly looking over your shoulder and peering for the wrong herbs in your dinner. Your life sounds more fraught than mine ever was.

[Which she knows is a strange thing to say when hers ended in violence and failure, but at home, she knew she could trust the people there. Now she's coming to understand that Claude may not have had that luxury.]