"I am all right. " seemed peculiar, as if he assumed Alicia was feeling ill after she had dinner with Martin.
Perplexed, she responded with a hint of suspicion, "What's going on?"
There was a brief pause before Tobias spoke. "The last time Martin and I had dinner, I drank the water handed by the maid and lost my ability to shift. It was the day after my eighteenth birthday. I was worried that you might have suffered the same accident, so I called to ask how you were doing."
Alicia's eyes widened in disbelief. "What happened? Why would that maid do such a vicious thing? Ellis only told me your ability to shift was gone because of some kind of medicine."
Tobias took a deep breath and began recounting the tragic events. "That Gamma told Martin that she heard about a new heating drop that
