Under the Skin

As for the Hot Dog, well … there was something bizarre about going to a lot of trouble to save a dog from death and then eating one a few days later.

Why was it always the desirable ones that sat in silence, and the misshapen rejects that prattled away unprompted?

This inability of some of the most superbly fit and well-adapted vodsels to be happy while they were alive was, for Isserley, one of the great mysteries she encountered in her job, and one which her years of experience had only made more puzzling.