The “Lick of the Lair" Story: Even in the dangerous new world, the wolf held a fearsome spot atop the mutant hierarchy. It is said that when the lair of the arctic- white was visited by a unicorn, rather than cower at its growl, she touched its tongue, giving it the gift of glow! “The Lick of the Lair” would come to mean good fortune, and the tongue of “The Lick" would come to glow in the dark, in a virtual rainbow of erotic colors!