"Perfectly safe," M'ress purred after swallowing down the lizard's tailtip. "I'm in no danger at all."

Yellowstripe the kzin lost his place on a Kzinti trade ship when the captain found out he was eating human prostitutes at spaceports. Since then the kzin has mended his ways and only eats people he thinks deserve it.

M'ress has gone in the opposite direction and uses less and less honest wording to trick people into getting eaten. This scene happens on the "shore leave" planet, and maybe its miraculous tech will restore the lizard, or maybe not. All M'ress cares about is that she got a meal.

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