#dalia

I'm obsessed with Dalia giving MC poison just for the myriad of potential diplomatic crises that that vial could cause. Like, there are so many ways for that to go very badly. MC drinks it? Bad look for Cé Cerine, how did A's new spouse get poisoned so soon after their arrival (and if it's learned it was suicide that almost looks worse for them than assassination)? MC snaps and poisons someone else (especially A) (which I assume will not be an option but y'know, Dalia doesn't know that)? Clearly the whole marriage was a plot to get an assassin into Cé Cerine's court. Anyone even finds it in MC's belongings? What were they planning to do with it? Just, so many ways for this to backfire on everyone involved, and yet Dalia still gives it to them! I can't tell if it feels like a gesture of love or not, because it's... nice...? of her to give them a way out despite the potential backlash and there aren't that many options for escaping an arranged political marriage. But on the other hand she's pretty vicious about dragging them back if they try to run away from the marriage for someone who decided to give them a means of killing themselves to escape the marriage they were trying to run away from!