You decide to get ahead of the messenger so you can be Tahomaz's non-poisoned friend for a couple minutes before the plot catches up. You mean, what? You don't know anything about poison. You've been here, in your room, for the past half hour. You're not sure why, since it's a ten-minute walk from the shive and you've been intending to get back to the source interpreter as soon as possible, but here you are.