[IC] New Crobuzon & the World Beyond

[Ningalu Baal'urki]

"When you say you use it against intruders, how do you administer it? Do they have to ingest it, or do you deliver the fumes somehow.  It could be useful."

"Since the intruders around here are usually carnivorous I usually use a breakable container that can be stepped on or thrown so they get drugged long before they can get to my home."  She replies.  "l've actually spread several score of such containers on the outskirts of my property except for the direction you came.  With the Tree-Giant on guard duty I don't need much protection from creatures from that direction.  When I was younger and could hunt better I could use the excess game I caught as bait.  But now I can barely catch enough for meat for myself let alone have enough to bait traps.  So I don't use ingestion as a way to drug intruders anymore."

"Okay, that's enough of that," she says while snapping her fingers in front of Crozar's face.  "Come on... Snap out of it!"  Suddenly Crozar blinks (do Cactacae blink?) as the hallucinatory creatures vanish and his senses return to him." 

"Good morning, Mr, Cactacae.  I hope you enjoyed your ride.  That'll teach ya to go sniffing around in a woman's things," she says with a chuckle.

"You have some of those prepared and stashed around the property?  Would you mind if I purchased some from you?  If you are leaving them behind anyway, they could be of some use."