|  |  | | A Brief History of Huggles 
 There was a time before the Huggle.  It was a cold, dark time of scurrying fear and wild beasts locked in an evolutionary struggle.  Onto this firmament of the psyche broke the dawn of Haus Being In A Scary Happy Mood.
 
 Into the memetic melting pot of fearsome debate and mudslinging, Haus cast himself, armed only with a new and nauseating personality:  the Haus of Huggles.  To the burgeoning horror of the assembled memes, it rapidly became apparent that this entity was not a sour pisstake, but a truly saccharine affair of rose water and iced cookies.
 
 Haus moved like a benign blight on the face of the Lith, spreading obssessive niceness and exculpation.  The plaguemark of surrender was the Huggle, a gesture between hug, apology, snuggle, and giggle, with the power to transform Lion into Ewok.
 
 The Barbelith Menome is strong.  Gradually, it absorbed the Huggle, which is now a mostly-latent aspect of our lives.  But occasionally...
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