Ky nodded. She could manage that… hopefully. No. She could. She had to. This wasn’t optional. She forced herself to take another tiny sip and started coughing this time.
Aleth was also trembling badly but was far too prideful to let the assistant help him, so he leaned heavily against the headboard and very, very slowly sipped it. If he was losing his toes, may as well do it when he couldn’t feel them. It’d be worse once he was warm.
“Sorry,” Tadaaki murmured, staring at the cup rather than the assistant. “Sorry. I—sorry.” This was so hard. He was making such a bad first impression — disobeying on something so simple. They probably hated him already. And for good reason. There was no use in a disobedient slave.
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