Intentions mean nothing when it comes to actual action. Resolve means more than intentions, and resolve is easily broken. If the body is poisoned, it won't matter where we are. Something would be changing. There'd be something. I know far too well how fast poisons work on a body.

[ A girl on the floor as he opens the door to her room, pale as a corpse and pained flashes through his mind. He'd only been gone a few hours. Just a single errand. ]