"I don't feel like there's any answer to that which allows me to look good coming out the other side. A while back, my...business partner and I were poisoned by a rich and powerful man who used the antidote as leverage to encourage us to do work for him. It's a long story." About a novel's worth, really.
"I'm better now. My partner tricked me into being the one to drink our only vial of antidote. He was later...purged...by a mage. A different sort than those here, I'm fairly certain."
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"I'm better now. My partner tricked me into being the one to drink our only vial of antidote. He was later...purged...by a mage. A different sort than those here, I'm fairly certain."