The Madness/random
A fragment of the Garden of Remembering
Generally, by the time you are Real, most of your hair has been loved off, and your eyes drop out and you get loose in the joints and very shabby. But these things don't matter at all, because once you are Real you can't be ugly, except to people who don't understand.
I cauterize the bitemark with my tongue. It does a nice job of picking up crumbs and preventing any instabilities from worsening.