Chapter 8: The Unveiling of Skin and Other Manly Events
Zeb took a deep breath and removed his Indians ball cap and shirt. What was underneath stimulated Nolan, who found the man’s scar tissue one of the most intriguing features he had ever laid his eyes on. Crisscrossed lines the color of a dull pink decorated a skinless patch of tissue, which was a dark crimson hue. Dime-thin grooves and pimples of a pale magenta decorated the banded area of scar, which stretched from the top of the man’s head to the middle-right section of his hip. The tissue, not flesh, was wavy in spots with narrow ridges. It looked as if it were a malformed tic-tac-toe board that Picasso might have found interesting to paint. Below the bald area of his skull were spiral curls of blond hair, which he had kept short a
