We were tempted to--some of us, anyway. I'm not a fan of getting poisoned, and Reed's brand new, so I didn't want him to have to be more scared than he already was. Aliza insisted, though. Said it would be terrible if someone she loved got a bottle of poison from her and that she wasn't sure she could take it if we did. We didn't exactly want to poison anyone either, so in the end the better choice to make for us was to try to look after her.

I know you said you're going to apologize already, but--you'd better make it a good one.