Daggers of Darkness, Book #5: "The First Ones" - Chapter-2
People either disappeared or were made public examples of. dark days had descended upon the r'hinsa. not all was lost, however.
DREADWOLF Chapter 50 to 54
He rules lynthia with an iron fist, if someone annoys him he either disappears them and they are never seen or heard from again or he makes a public example out of them in the most brutal way possible." "i saw some scary devices in this mansion.
Love Locust - 3/3 (final)
This is why, instead of canceling the ceremony, no less than a thousand prisoners were hurriedly gathered to become public examples.