Red Seas Under Red Skies: The Gentleman Bastard Sequence, Book Two (Gentleman Bastards 2)
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Merrain made her decision then. If the antidote couldn’t be duplicated, and she could knock the vial to the ground . . . the troublesome anomalies Kosta and de Ferra were as good as dead. That would leave only Stragos and Xandrin.
If they were dealt with, all those with any direct knowledge of the fact that she served a master beyond Tal Verrar would be silenced.
She moved her right arm slightly, dropping the hilt of her poisoned dagger into her hand, and took a deep breath.
Merrain moved so fast that the false Eye standing to her side never even had the chance to raise his sword. Her sideways stab, not preceded by any telltale glance or lunge, took him in the side of the neck. She slid the blade sideways as she withdrew, tearing whatever she could in case the poison took a few extra seconds to do its work.