- took off her glasses and put both hands behind her head.

Leon looked on as Mona put both hands behind her head. She gave a look back at him with her innocent blue eyes from her pale, pretty face. She looked at him and she pulled with both hands and her pale, pretty face stretched lengthways. Her eyes went hollow and her bobbed-black hair folded and seemed to slough off her head like a wig. Mona pulled off her face in one effortless go and dropped it in a heap of skin, the face Leon loved was on the table as if it were an everyday occurrence.

From the neck down it was Mona as Leon knew her. Her lime-green dress that showed every inch of her figure, complete with belt, black stockings and slip-on shoes.