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Let me tell you how it's done, for this I know now. For preference they choose the quiet, biddable, ones. If they are pretty so much the better, to tug at the heart strings. Then they drug them. Not the attendants; they need to see, to know, to be free to weep, to wail. But us they drug. Two days it takes commonly. Different potions to achieve the effect, for we have to be able to walk upright by ourselves, no signs of fear yet unable to free our limbs or mind. Willing? Let you be the judge of that.