<em>We do - what we have to,</em>Miaren thinks with a grimace.  She tries to remember what it was like to suck on something more pleasant - a piece of juicy fruit, a maple sweet - anything but the bitter-salt length of flesh that she takes between her lips.  She forces her lips and tongue to make the same movements that they would make on something actually palatable.<br/><br/>Despite the taste, she is soon sucking fiercely on Adamion, wishing only for this humiliation to be over soon.