She is very embarrassed. She only wishes he hadn't removed everything,
she has never felt so naked, not even in shop class in the tenth grade when
the lathe tore off her shirt and everyone saw she still had a
training bra.
This is
worse.
Saul, still on his knees but now in a corner wincing, burns bright red and attempts to mumble an apology without looking at her nakedness. Her bones clatter as she summons what decorum she can muster (it is hard to tell how dignified a skull is trying to be,
Saul cowers for a few moments and realizes she is gone. He slowly stands and wipes some excess blood from his belly, turns this way and that, and mumbles to himself.
All at once all through the neighborhood, each of the levitating TV sets comes
on, as if someone had thrown a single switch. At first their screens light up
crazily in random, jangling swirls. The glow from the screens plays across the
lawns, gardens, and housefronts.
And now the agitating chaos on the many
screens slows and settles. A pattern begins to emerge, clearer every second. It
is a color wheel: red within blue, blue within green, green within white, white
within red. Gracefully and deliberately, the wheel begins to spin.
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