they wore leather jackets and tight jeans and motorcycle boots and dark expressions . `` any other time fine , but not now . '' finally one of the four-armed workers climbed into the tank and dug deep pits in the four corners . strange dreams stalked his sleep that night . he looks down at me with half a grin , his black hair standing up more than usual , his scruff even darker this morning because he did n't shave , and how can you love someone so much that it burns through you ? 