Absolutely true. I completely agree. All these nit-pickers! 
The really new thing here seems to be a “hypodermic needle”, which AQ suggests, is filled with something called “neela thotha”. Isn’t that some kind of poison? Seems it all goes very well with citrine’s eye-popping views about how all men are bad and fairly useless creatures, so using a poison on them in lieu of PDA is probably just as good.
As I said before, all this is fascinating stuff, if only it made a li’l sense. This time you may have truly over-estimated the deduction skills of your readers. I am very impressed with your coherent and logical writing, though. Very nice.