The Fox General: Twin Spots

"have you cleaned the opium out of thatdamned thing?" luce asked as she crept up behind me. i took in some smoke. there was no denying that the acrid taste of the poppy was there and my paws began to tingle a bit, but yet i denied it nonetheless.

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Death's Blood: Ch. Twenty-One: Back to Business

The other windows break open and clouds of smoke burst out, telling me how potent that opium is. in a hurry, i climb down. upon reaching the ground, i howl again, "payton? payton! where are you?!"

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A siren and an incubus chapter 2

"combination rose water and opium has transformative properties" he muttered, scratching a few things onto his notepad in some weird illegible language. opium? i suppose that would make for some good coffee.

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One Night, Nine Cycles

In the corner, decked out in jewelry and puffing away at an opium pipe, the large hyena once again eyed his prized possession, stretched on his house's finest silk-cast bed with a basin of fine oils at the foot to aid in the "transaction.

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The Fox General: Lay Waste the Land

But anger can be a drug, they say, and canis knows i've lost track of the time in an opium haze before. "send a scout down to meet them." "right away." i returned to the spyglass and watched as one of my riders rode down to meet them halfway.

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*Rewrite* The Extraordinary Casebook of Dr. Exeter; Chapters 1 and 2

Why go through those agonising hours, instead of trusting liquid opium to deliver me gently into the dark arms of charon.

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Lay Tex

Folklore \* \* \* a potion made from: aceonite (mookshood or wolfsbane) belladonna children's blood children's fat hemlock poplar leaves soot cowbane cinquefoil oil bat's blood deadly nightshade sweet flag parsley opium

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The Wunderland Express

Like most of the other heads in the room, zander's swiveled to take in the sight of a kzin, a large, bat-eared, rat tailed, felinoid that looked like some tiger hunter's opium nightmare, filling the doorway with his seven-foot high frame.

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The Gladiator, Chapter 1

Kayo asked, voice crackling with hope long since forgotten in the misty opium-flooded air of the slums. "a few. seven, maybe?" seven, a lucky number in two ways. this conversation could wait.

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An Unusual Patient

The doctor uncaps a bottle from which he obtains a mixture of opium and other herbs which he measures as to in the necessary but careful quantity that may be in the need to the task.

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Curse Part 3

A brothel staffed entirely by succubi sat next to an opium den while a club exclusive to those with multiple sets of arms or legs sat across the street.

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