He peeped through the viewport in the rather solid door and was very distressed by what he saw.
On his front step, the entire clan was arrayed as if for battle, one stood forth and held a hand out in the universal sign of parley.
“I haven’t had my coffee yet!” he protested at the surface of his rather underwhelmed door.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9eyP2Uqa7xA
Into Another - ‘May I?’
May I Love you madly
like a boy?
Kiss you sadly?
Feed you tears and drink your skin?
Invite myself right in?
May I?
Her
Half-child voice falls on my head like warmest ocean waves
GENTLY and deliberately drowning me
And WILLINGLY I drown.
If I ask politely
Will you watch as I die nightly?
Would you think me TACTLESS if I act LESS like the man I am?
May I?
Her
Half-closed eyes like those,
on a tired TIGERESS.
Gently and deliberately melt my BULLETPROOF MIRRORSHADES
AND
Knowingly
Lovingly
Peer inside at MY REAL EYES
And I can’t help but SMILE
No I can’t help.
-tigeress-
Would you think me thoughtless
If I thought less of myself from time to time,
Or if I knowingly, willingly lost what’s left of my MIND
Oh, I can’t help but smile
No, I can’t help.
I was going to use this in a scene in the Karsh Kentu tales where he’s wearing modern clothing and some certain someone confronts him and does indeed melt his eyewear, revealing him as he really looks.
[Yes, the someone would have been Abilene the Seer. She just can’t help herself when it comes to meddling.]
This was also the song I was listening to when I decided that Abilene has a power to command people with her voice.
Your coffee would drive them all off, I’m sure.