It was true that this someone scary was not afraid to use her sexuality to get what she wanted. Flirtation, the Cow had noted long ago, was a very effective tool in managing upward. But it required a strong stomach, in most cases - something the Cow, despite allegedly having four - lacked.
The scary person didn't. And so, she often got her way. And, it seems, the interest of the nipple owner.
The Cow was prepared to write it off as a masochistic manifestation, or something deeply linked to issues of power and control, or some perverse attraction like the call of a cliff to the wild lemming.
And then, he told her about his dream.
In this dream, the nipple owner was talking to this person. And then... the person morphed into a cow. Not just any cow, but... the Carnivorous Cow!
The Cow wasn't sure what to make of it. Was it a comment on the scary someone becoming more bovine? Or was it a comment that the Cow was somehow interchangeable with the scary person?
The Cow had often heard of people rushing to speak to therapists about their dreams, but she had never heard of someone rushing to a therapist to speak about someone else's dream. But this had her really worried.
Gramsci was less concerned. "Let her turn into you," he suggested to the Cow. "Then at least you won't have four weeks' backlog waiting for you when you get back."
It did seem sensible. She just hoped that the scary someone didn't know the PIN code to her bank account, too...