The freshly sharpened blade was betweenmend dangerous and guard penetrated the jugular without resistance.

'There's been an-accident-yourauntwas shot with an arrow- penetrated the jugular vein-'

It was a downward, oblique stab in the throat which had pierced the larynx and penetrated the jugular vein.

If in that moment of darkness I had cut to the right, my instrument would have penetrated the jugular vein.