Pam holds her still. Her mouth and tongue move slow and slickly against her skin, sticky and warm, as if giving her a particularly gruesome hickey. She lets the blood flow instead of sucking too deeply, because that might hurt in addition to the sting of the open wounds.

Pam is being nice.

She curls her fingers loosely in Noriko's hair. Her other hand still cups her face, her thumb stroking her delicate cheekbone.