Elma POV
Maren put two stoppered vials on the bedside table. One held residue from Anna's supper pan. One held a saved blood sample from my first examination at the castle, taken while the drug was still in my body. Beside them lay a copy of the label from the missing metal case in Zeb's border register.
"You can't tell us anything from an empty bottle," Paxton said.
"I can tell you what the others contain," Maren replied. "And that the old report names them all as wolfsbane."
I propped myself against the pillows. The stitches across my belly pulled when I moved, so I stopped moving. Julie had brought Lora a chair, but she remained standing, watching Maren's hands.
Maren held the first vial to the lantern. "Anna's food contained measured wolfsbane. Enough to make her ill, possibly to
