| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote |
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| 50 | 134 | View more quotes about once">Once within, he had soon located the room allocated to Lyris. |
| 50 | 135 | There he had seized her and, as she awakened, wildly, and might have cried out, he had thrust a wad of ground meat into her mouth, stifling any possibility of a scream. |
| 50 | 136 | He had then clapped his hand over her mouth, so that she was unable to expel the meat, and, with his other hand, covered her nostrils, preventing the ingress of air. |
| 50 | 137 | This was reminiscent of a common way in which slave wine is administered to a slave, to preclude conception, as the breeding of a slave is, naturally, at the discretion of her masters. |
| 50 | 138 | In short, Lyris was given the choice of engorging the meat, which was feasible for a Kur, if not a human, or suffocating. |
| 50 | 139 | Predictably, after a certain amount of time, she swallowed the meat. |
| 50 | 140 | It was then only necessary to hold her mouth closed for a bit, until the tassa powder, with which the meat was liberally laced, should take effect. |