How we cite our quotes: (Story.Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #7
The kitten landed on its feet, took a tottering step, then another. Bewildered, it looked back at Mab with its big golden eyes, and then there was a flash of long white arm through the balusters and it was gone.
A pitiable mewl, a crunch, and a waft of stench. (3.6.34-35)
The beasts of Tajbel are basically a more terrifying version of the troll under the bridge myth. They writhe around under the bridge, reaching up to grab any creature that comes along that they can kill and eat. Yikes.
Quote #8
She had a trespasser. She was crushed down inside herself, tamped down, creased, torn, bruised. That first time the Queen entered her, Mab knew little else but her shock, little but the cold and the ache, but she would soon grow accustomed to it. It was the new shape of her life. (3.6.53)
When the Druj Queen takes over Mab's body without warning, it's terrible and painful. Although she's not beating or starving Mab anymore, it's another disturbing form of abuse for the girl to endure.
Quote #9
The Queen was inside of her and Mab was as powerless over her own body as if she were merely its shadow. Dimly she saw her own painted arm reaching for the boy, but she could barely feel his skin beneath her fingertips. It was the Queen who felt what her fingers felt as she traced them over his sharp young clavicles, his heartbeat in his thin chest as clear and fast as a bird's. (3.8.19)
When the Druj take over human bodies and use them for sex, it's the most traumatizing thing that they can put their "pets" through. If Mab ever felt any love for the Druj Queen, it's now vanished. She's been horribly cruel.