One horrible image after another! Was Timon trying to scar him for life? The idea of him being b-ba... He couldn't even bear to have it said in prose! And now he suggested he have fur? "You are missing the point again!" Vyers would have to rethink this, it seemed. If the truth was not sufficient, then perhaps there was some sort of illness he could cite.

And then the host of the party arrived. That was right. Urd was the one who had set this up, wasn't she? Vyers could only hope he didn't end up in another unfortunate situation because of this. "As I have been trying to say, I do not have one. I refuse to swim with these clothes on and those sold in the city itself are of awful taste."