He could feel his face draining, but he pushed anyway, because that made as much sense as anything.

Strychnine--he knew that one. He knew several poisons, of course he'd been trained to immunity with the ones where that was possible, only he couldn't think, because Nida...

Yes, yes, strychnine made sense--it made people start shaking and then they died.

"Please don't let her die," he said.