After getting the gist of what Lance was saying, Hal was able to connect the dots.
He realized that the villain he mentioned was the same one who sent Eli to his Realm back then. Though he already expected that he'd spring right back up one of these days, he didn't think he'd be able to contrive this big of a scheme and rope this much people to it. It gave him the impression that he had plotted everything for quite some time now. The revelation that he can make use of poison did cross his mind before, though. After all, this Lord Caspar won't design his Realm after a garden of poisonous flowers for no reason.
