thick , gray skin stretched tightly over slabs of bulging muscle . if you dont want to end up hurt too , you should leave . `` a man who 'd shoot another man in the face he even looked at you . holding his hand out to me , i take it and bask in the warmth of his body . i snap it back on the pen and fix my line of sight straight ahead . he wondered if that was her version of a green light . `` because words vary from world to world . 