Unlike yesterday, Friday was prepared...

With Torg tacos!

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And bug burritos!

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YUM!

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Oh, this is really good. I love the way we get to watch this society evolve, and all the norms and customs around the animas. Here's hoping for at least one more time-jump forward.

Man, I really love how Pete is always able to create some really intriguing storylines. For what it seemed like a nice lowdown plotline after the super heavy previous one, it has me on the edge of my seat.

Uh oh, Torg must have... Maybe this is spec... But he would never have left Zoe unless it was important.

It would be hard to have secrets when everyone can see that you have one.

I cheer for Gwynn for once .

Ah, classic kinda-like-break-up-haven't-seen-him-for-ages. If tropes are correct, Torg will actually turn out to be ████, or at least █████████.

Like the best of science fiction, Pete has altered one aspect of humanity ("What if you had a visible sign on you of what you were truly thinking and feeling") and uses characters, conflict, plot, and setting to flesh out all the ramifications.

I'm really hoping Pete has an endgame and explains why the DFA is doing this to them! :-)

I guess Scattleburg grew up in the last thousand years ...

Uh-oh! There are faint shadows in the "enhanced" animas. The one on the right looks quite unhappy beneath the surface. If every dark spot is an eye or a mouth, then there are multiple suppressed faces in each anima. This can't possibly be good.

The stitches seem to be moving around a bit. That's perhaps not surprising given the immaterial nature of animas.

How do they do these "enhancements"? Do they stitch parts of different animas together? Where do those parts come from? Are there anima donors, like organ donors?

Suddenly I'm wondering what various soul-collecting and soul-trading demons would be able to do with an anima.

I wrote a post that apparently disappeared, where I said I half expected to see "plastic surgery" scars forcing the animas' faces into a rictus of a fake smile. "But this isn't nearly that creepy. Yet."

But I think you're right. I think there IS a sad/scared face under there. Aaaand we're right back to creepy.

Yikes! I didn't notice that at first... Now it might be hard to get to sleep... So creepy. It's like a visual scream heard though a locked door.

Looks more like bruises to me other than faces.

Looking more closely I think they are faces. If I imagine the situation as if it were in our world, where we cannot see people's true emotion, the women and their anima appear far too happy for the context.

I'd believe either bruises or faces at this point. I'm sure they're unhappy.

The black smudges on the right one can definitely be a face. But there's also smudges all over their bodies. It could just be bruises, or other bad mojo.

Plastic surgery is DEFINITELY one way to hide your true emotions. I believe in our world we call it a botched job when that happens though...