AZRAEL
"Lady Ivana's body has been disposed of and her ashes have been dispatched to Alpha Ziba as per your command. And as expected, he's not the least bit pleased with the events involving his oldest daughter," Eros reports from his latest mission.
I remain silent, drawing a sip from my golden chalice filled with bittersweet wine high in lethal doses of poisons.
Today's mix is made more potent to draw out the effects of what drunkenness should feel like, because that's what I need—to be drunk and numb, to feel absolutely nothing.
Not even this mind-rotting sense of emptiness that eats me alive every single day.
"Once again you've offended another powerful house that could possibly rally others behind him to rebel against your majesty—all while we're still dealing with the last few incidents of uprising in the north. I must admit, her majesty will be furious upon her return."
