As it turned out, only two of the glasses of juice had been spiked with poison...mine and Persia's. Thankfully, she didn't drink any.
No doubt about it...this wasn't an indiscriminate attack, someone had targeted me and decided to try and take her out in the process too. The poison used was the same type that I use on my poison needles...well, at least I now know that my Healing Factor is immune to it. Still, my heart and other organs had definitely stopped working for a moment there...apparently, I'd been out for about twenty seconds.
Still, it didn't change the fact that someone had tried to, and almost did, kill me. But more than that, the fact that they had also tried to kill Persia especially infuriated me. Too bad I don't have a clue as to who did it. Multiple people, including hired staff and a few of the instructors, had helped with setting up the food on the tables.
