One day Rachel would have to ask Suzi just what kind of person the woman had taken into her house...not today though. Today there were greater worries...like the poisoning, even as the frantic sounds of hammering began to ring out.

She knew what the poison was...but it wasn't her poison to drain. That had to happen between the shards...when they weren't going to die within heartbeats of meeting at any rate.

That left...blunting some of the poison, the Anger. She could do that. Poisoned she snarled, holding her ground. Worry about that first

He wouldn't, she knew that.