# Chapter 64
The root and stem of poison hemlock contained toxic substances. Ladies who gathered wild herbs knew what this plant looked like and could avoid it, but the wild animals got confused and often grazed poison hemlock, so they ended up having stomach aches. The toxicity was, of course, low and incomparable to that of Archimo and Typhon’s poison. But it became a serious problem if a person who drank the extract couldn’t move and was unconscious for days.
‘They fed her something like that?’
After a moment of shock, she opened her sister’s mouth, feeling surprised by how ignorantly and barbarously the enemy soldiers treated their slaves. She generated clear wine in the golden cup she was holding and poured it little by little into her sister’s mouth, thinking that it’d be better to see it with her own eyes than to fully explain.
