I'm a bit confused, lost if you will... Bai Ling said it was against her customs to read him and mark him, but that's what she does... what?
Is it against her custom to mark him because he is American (foreign), or a guy, or what? Or is it actually wrong for her to be doing the tattoos? She had all the stuff right there ready to go to tattoo Jack. And I still don't get what was SO scary about what Jack's tattoos meant.

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`Dear, dear! How queer everything is to-day! And yesterday things went on just as usual. I wonder if I've been changed in the night? Let me think: was I the same when I got up this morning? I almost think I can remember feeling a little different. But if I'm not the same, the next question is, Who in the world am I? Ah, that's the great puzzle!'

-- Alice, from “Alice’s Adventure’s in Wonderland”