“You Terwilliger?”
the minister started to protest- You Terwilliger?
- a skull with candy lettering
- a tapestry of golden bees
- jerked the boy upward
- an alien tongue
“You Terwilliger?” the burly man demanded.
The minister started to protest that he was not, in fact, Terwilliger, but then he realized that the burly man was not talking to him. The minister turned his attention and saw a teenage boy standing behind him in line, clutching a skull with candy lettering that read something unintelligible in an alien tongue. On his chin a tapestry of golden bees formed the beard that puberty had not yet provided.
The burly man jerked the boy upward, scattering the bee beard into an angry cloud.
“The boss has been waiting for that,” the burly man said, indicating the decorated skull and dragging the boy inside the nightclub.