Signale
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In Jacqueline Carey's Kushiel's Legacy series, a signale is a safeword used between Servants of Naamah and their patrons to stop sexual play when it has become too painful or intense. A patron who fails to heed the signale is guilty of heresy, for violating the Precept of Blessed Elua. Mandrake and Valerian are the two Houses of the Night Court to require use of a signale.
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The anguissette Phèdre nó Delaunay uses a signale, and chooses as her code word the name of her Tsingani friend Hyacinthe. She gives the signale to only one person: Melisande Shahrizai.
