Human leg of the tibia, thus acting on two joints. It share its distal insertion with the sartorius and semitendinosus, all three muscles forming the pes anserinus. It is the most medial muscle of the adductors, and with the thigh abducted its origin can be clearly seen arching under the skin. With the knee extended, it adducts the thigh and flexes the hip. The pectineus has its origin on the iliopubic eminence laterally to the gracilis and, rectangular in shape, extends obliquely to attach immediately behind the lesser trochanter and down the pectineal line and the proximal part of the linea aspera
Characters in the Realm of the Elderlings in a Divvytown brothel, Kennit takes a whore, Etta, with whom he had had a long-standing "business" relationship, onto his ship. Etta is madly in love with Kennit and oblivious to the fact that he is all but incapable of returning her sentiments. While attacking a slave ship, Kennit has his right leg bitten by a serpent just under the knee. Etta is responsible for the eventual severing of Kennit's leg during the serpent attack, but although she acted to save his life, Kennit is suspicious of her reasons for "feeding the serpent his leg", and in the beginning, he