They were no longer intent on smashing up furniture and priceless heirlooms. Who knows how many works of art were spared for posterity as a result? An...d when the rioters had finished their business, they filed out of the house almost apologetically, their baseball bats and other weapons now splattered with blood. They even tried to close the door behind them that they had earlier spent a full ten minutes forcing open. Theo was able to determine from the deep gouges and the damage to the lock. My lips were scarlet red and fullerlooking. I tried washing it off, but it wouldn't budge.Polly came in, and laughed at me trying to remove the makeup. They weretattoos she explained, so I would always look immaculately made up. Shepulled me back into the bedroom, and in the full length mirror showed mewhat other damage she had wrought. Running down the back of each leg wasa tattoo of a stocking seam, which ended mid thigh on both legs in lacystocking tops. There was a tattoo of a lacy. Since it was midday, everybody was at their jobs. Oddly enough, thisworld isn't much unlike my own. It's sort of like a regular city on anature binge. Trees all around, everyone wearing the same for ofrevealing robes, animals coming and going, yet large wooden sidewalksthat connect everyone to the stores and housing.The busy metropolis of the city always kept my attention whenever I sawit. Trekking down the stairs, since I live in a branch off of a mainhouse and don't have a bathroom, I made my. It was very strange, Hoist didn’t back down to anything, not even a bear.Jack needed a name to call the strange dog since a good sledder needed an accurate whip and a name for every dog, since a certain way to tangle the traces was to call out one dog and sting another. He talked to the dog as he harnessed him up in an Inuit style rig, each dog on it’s own trace, the lead dog on the longest line, and the dog listened attentively, passed on most of the names he offered, and accepted the name Jim.