Dear Inky:

Thank you. The Azz in my story expressed his anger, his hostility toward me in a very clear, loud way without a single word directed at me, without a look directed at me or any act but simply by exclusion. Quite powerful, as we are herd animals by origin and very much in practice, still. When a herd animal, like an elk, is excluded from the herd, it is a death sentence. Hence the evolutionary background of exclusion…

anita