"Tonnis is safe, but he isn't here," Rosie said, staring at her husband's outstretched hand and refusing to take it. "We're safe because her Dominion, Lady Ashlynn, sent two of her vampires to rescue us… Then she healed us. Lord Owain, he used Nightweaver Venom on your son and me. 'Spider Demon Poison,'" she added when she saw confusion on Tommin's face.
"Your master wanted us to suffer because you abandoned him. He wanted you to watch us suffering… but you never cared about us enough to know that we were sick," she said as a heat began to build within her chest that slowly overwhelmed the anguish of seeing him laid low like this.
