"Oh come now, Freddy! You could be my first customer. When's the last time you've been unraveled? Why I bet your tendons are like violin strings tightened to the point of taking out someone's eye."

The very idea was insidious. He had been just joshing as usual, but maybe, just maybe he would take it seriously just to watch his old colleague writhe beneath him as he combed out the rat's-nests of knots in his flesh.