From a purely observational standpoint, the whole business of kissing looked quite horrifying. The first time I’d stumbled across it, I’d thought…well, I was ten years old. I couldn’t begin to guess what was happening. All I could think was that Elayne, one of the chambermaids, and Jafray, one of the gardeners, were engaged in some kind of hostile tussle, and things had devolved to biting.

