No wonder you were horrified, Pad, that's horrific. I don't know how the little girl would have taken it, but if I had essentially the flayed corpse of my new pet on my bedroom floor, regardless of my age, I'd probably never sleep again.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
