Ding-dong!*: Beckun;dig-Nuffied Pouncing

Dallas grabbed the latch & unsheathed it with a sloppy rattling. 3 alarmed visages exploded inside: ultra short brunette with a bushy pixie haircut, rough chestnut eyes, a block[-]y nose perched on wide lips - tumbled Anika zen Weyjes. A scrawny guy with curling yellow hair, of emaciated jowls gouging the eye-sockets inside round brown glasses, encompassed David Hooksclot.

Beside them, a Strawberry blond girl with a high-maintenance Bun clamped in place, wearing a navy blue skirt over green leggings, among bracelets and beads, wandered Amelia's Lake*blue eyes - (whose surname escaped me at the time). She had stretched a thin, chocolate-y fabric over her flat torso, where her arms glowed a striking color of raw clay. She was quietly crying over a dot of a nose, fidgeting beneath her synthetic complexion, composure leaking like the two purple sashes of dye running either side her scalp.

Each of them were smudged with ash, and the skin of their forearms looked raw.