"If he refuses to obey I will have him flayed alive."
If he didn't get himself up onto the back of the truck, he'd be flayed alive.
He rose, turned, and said, "I would flay alive the one who did this."
No one could say such a thing in a Gorayni camp without being flayed alive.
"Oh yes, some of them were also to be flayed alive," he added.
Instead, it had taken him hours to die, flayed alive slowly by creatures who fed on human pain.
As a result, the king had him arrested and flayed alive.
And why should I not have you flayed alive to gain your information?
If the Council doesn't have me flayed alive first for letting you be killed under my very eyes!
His whole face was orange with it, like he'd been flayed alive.