Thread:Ursuul/@comment-37950665-20190408073308/@comment-28083312-20190408100116

If I recall correctly then the saliva/venom isn’t, but rather the saliva is solely a narcotic meant to sedate humans or addict them. Consider that infecting a person requires bites, the skin must be broken (see Dresden’s dreams) & a few times Dresden mentions in earlier books that as long as he wasn’t “bitten” or had bite marks then he would be ok. Contrast this with the saliva/venom, which is contact-based. All it has to do is hit your skin & it’ll get to work. It’s used interchangeably; Dresden usually calls it saliva or “narcotic drool,” sometimes referring to it as venomous, but Morgan actually refers to it as venom. Morgan, having more field experience, might be the better source here; however, Susan calls it The Kiss & seems to use it as an actual name (it’s capitalized), indicating that others in the Fellowship / Red Court also label it as such. The Kiss is probably the most official term for it, saliva is the most literal term for it, & venom is the most descriptively accurate term for it. Either way, all of these terms are used interchangeably so I don’t think we necessarily need an “official” term. We can just say it’s officially called The Kiss & then refer to it as venom or saliva as the context demands.