"It means," Shuyin said slowly, her jade eye glowing brighter as she considered the implications, "that your daughter's condition wasn't natural. Someone or something introduced a substance into her body that nearly killed her. The question is: who had access to such a thing? And why target a twelve-year-old girl?"
The implications hung heavily in the air.
Lu Yuze's expression darkened, his jaw clenching with barely contained fury. "Someone poisoned my daughter? Deliberately?"
"The poison doesn't occur naturally in your world," Shuyin confirmed. "Someone had to obtain it, somehow, and administer it. Whether Yuyan was the intended target or simply in the wrong place at the wrong time, I cannot say yet."
