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"You were right, Doctor," Korvel said "She died of…the poisoning" He looked down at Simone "But she has become Kyn"

"We need a room," Alexandra said to Richard "And a lot less audience"

Korvel carried Simone inside the castle and to his cha Richard

"I know this girl is not Kyndred, Alexandra," the high lord warned "I want to knohat caused this to happen"

"Absolutely I’ll get right on that" She shut the door in his face and bolted it "Nosy jackass"

Korvel glanced at her "He can hear you through the door"

"Why do you think I said it?" The doctor came over to the bed where Korvel had placed Simone, and set her case on the lamp table beside it "Since no one has bothered to ask, how are you feeling?"

"I don’t know," Siry Mostly confused"

"That’s par for the course" Alexandra took out her stethoscope and used it to listen to her heart, then wrapped a blood pressure cuff around her right ar did it take for her to die after I injected her?"

"Only a fewat Siht this voice got inside my head and said I had to come here" She pulled the stethoscope froo to hell, it took overhas she been in transition?"

"She was not She was dead"

"Her heart rate and BP say otherwise" She put an electronic therainst Simone’s ear and then checked the display "Borderline hypotherht froht for h the examination, and the only time she flinched hen Alexandra produced a copper-tipped, open-ended syringe and solass vials

"I need to take a little blood now so I can use all the fancy equipht?" When Sian to draw the samples

Korvel looked over as Simone’s blood filled the first vial "She handled both the scroll and the cross, Alexandra"

"I know" She exchanged vials

He felt a surge of iht every human who touched them died Which reminds me," she said to Simone "Were either of your parents Catholic, or maybe born in America?"

"I don’t think so," Simone said "My father was born in Garbia Mother was a prostitute in Paris"

"At least you had a two-legged mother Evidently mine was a Petri dish in some mad scientist’s lab" She saw Si?"

"It’s not rudeness," Si to help"

"He didn’t say a word," Alexandra said, at the same time Korvel told her, "I didn’t speak"

"You said the doctor should not speak so rudely to me I heard you" She looked from Korvel to Alexandra "Didn’t you hear hi it"

"It could be part of the bond between you two," Alexandra said as she began packing up her case "Sometimes Michael and I finish each other’s sentences It’s probably best if you keep this to yourself," she added "Bond stuff is private"

"You don’t believe any of that," Sih lord to know about this" When the doctor didn’t reply, she got to her feet "Why?"

Alexandra ignored the question "Okay, we’ve got telepathy Captain, we have to get her out of here I suggest now I’ve got the Learjet waiting on the mainland; she can corateful for the generous offer, ive us a moment alone, please?"

She nodded, picked up her case, and left