We were lucky, [she says, after a short pause in which it's clear he's just waiting for her to go on.] They found us before anyone had been killed, which ... on the one hand, we were more useful to them alive, but on the other they weren't especially careful. A few of us tried to escape, and I thought ... anyway. None of us died.

They were injecting the rifters with lyrium. Do you know a lot about what lyrium does?