Roy's Alpha Male Journal

[Shannon]

How it is done, is unrevealed. Dreams are useful, but alone they are only dreams. Taking down tables from the top wastes energy; we simply remove what festers by scooping it out and throwing it away. It is unpleasant to open a boil, but the displeasure is preferable to the death that awaits otherwise.

As the snake sheds its skin, so too must the man shed the boy; but not just the boy: the sickness that the boy had been carrying, as well.