Chapter 10: Rogue Force

*Bryson*

"Nothing, it's just something you said," I looked off over her head. "It made me think of my own situation, you know, my poisoning."

She opened her mouth, intent on comforting the man that had me wrapped in his arms. Before she could though, I looked back down at her.

"Was what you said true?" I asked. "Do people who know medicine know how to harm people?"

My mind was whirling as Ada's words hit me.

Over the past few days I had thought about the fact that I had been poisoned since childhood. While it had been hard to come to terms with the idea of someone that close to me betraying me, I needed to find out who it was. Every time Ada left me, that was all I could think about.

And something Ada had just said struck a chord that I hadn't considered before.

She had said something along the lines of all healers knowing how to kill people, and it made me realize…one of the only people I hadn't considered.

"Was what you said