Chapter 72
The letter reached Sonam late one evening, delivered by the same discreet courier who had carried Chase's reports north these past weeks, and he broke the seal immediately, reading through the dense, careful account with mounting alarm.
Chase's report was thorough as always, detailing the poisoning of the visiting elder Bertrand, the pattern now established clearly across three separate incidents, the general, the matriarch, and now this minor pack elder, all suffering from the same mysterious wasting illness that no ordinary healer within the household could properly identify or treat, all recovering suddenly and inexplicably during their stay under this family's roof.
I no longer believe these poisonings represent isolated incidents, Chase had written. The pattern is delibe
