She squeezes a lemon into the glass as well. "It does happen." Ortus's mother being a more recent example.

"Well, he died in the first six months, and she returned to Cypris even before their offspring were decanted, so of course the Ninth historians have never forgiven her. But she did present a proper weregild before she left, and laid no claim to the heirs, so she was perfectly respectable by her own standards, I suppose."

"The flute she made of his femur lay in storage among our lesser heirlooms for generations."