At that point, Miki had turned around in her chair again. “Live without skin? What now?” “Yes! She promised to skin us!” “You know it’s not really that easy to skin a person, right?” “What?” “I’m a hunter,” Miki explained. “Me and my girls—” “My girls and I,” Irene corrected. “Stop it. We go hunting all the time. And it’s not easy to skin a deer, and they have that thick hide you can pretty much grab and pull. But humans . . .” She lifted her left hand and with her right began to simulate removing human skin. “Our skin is so thin, you’ve gotta be real careful about removing it. It’s not like
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