She took the goblet in both hands. "I apologize. It- it is the way that I have lived since, well, as long as I can remember." Sindra drank, neatly and quietly, she did not take very much wine at the feast preferring to have her wits about her you should keep your wits about here as well, little one.
"You have been more than generous, sig- Sandro," Sindra said. "I- do not know how or if I can repay."
Obligation is the executioner's blade, the serpent hissed grimly.