"This is unacceptable. I've invested too much time and effort. Lady Vica and I had an agreement to help each other -"
From outside the women's tent, Vica could hear Cicera's fstern objections to the group parting ways. She hadn't thought the woman would be so adamant about sticking together after finding out what the cause of her fatigue and general ailing had been. Indeed, after Dresden had been told, he had made sure to keep his distance from her himself. There had been no malice in it, only a sensible exercise of caution, but it had still stung. Especially when she saw Mattheus herding all of his assistants away from her vicinity as well on the rare occasion that they came close to her. Seemed he had doubts about whether they had enough non-human blood to keep them immune. That was fai
