Short and jagged nails, not quite bitten to the quip, avoided purposefully probably for keeping up appearances.
 
 The skin surrounding the finger bed was red, brittle and ragged. It was clear though the nail was not quite to the quip the biting had not ceased, just shifted.
 
 The battered fingers nested gently in tanned calloused ones, tipped with untrimmed talons. Too, mistreated, in the way of forget or apathy as opposed to marring.
 
One hand does most of the warming for the other as the bodies they belong to lay beneath an early Spring moon, and that one is grateful and the other is too that neither pay mind to the jagged snag of a hand beloved.