Elphaba Butcher's Block

Elphaba wiped the wet off Liir's pasty face with the edge of her sleeve.

The face stayed where it was pushed. She grimaced, and nearly vomited, and spit something into a bucket, and then she sank her mouth down on the child's, and breathed out, pushing into the sour passage her own sour breath. Her fingers tensed at the sides of the butcher's block, gouging splinters, as if in an ecstasy of sexual tension. Chistery breathed along with her, breath for breath.

- Wicked, Book 4