"Without releasing the woman's throat, the man slowly turns his head, rotating into the light a face almost as shocking as the one hatched from the mayonnaise bottle. It is completely smooth and white. No brows or lashes. Lips and eyes the color of salmon egg. A bright porcelain brow framed by an even brighter mane of hair, like chrome, for all the world like flowing mother chrome." Chapter 1
"Freed of his chain Marley soon got over his limp and turned out to be a great watchdog - though his act was really more a welcome than a warning. He would hide beneath a big salal out at the edge of the road and made a sudden silent rush at any vehicle coming into the yard. He had once been able to leap all the way.....
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