Sucked In

Didn't you like the look of your biscuit? asks Alexander-Red-Hook.

No! says Terence.

What's wrong with it? asks Alexander-Red-Hook.

It reminds me of someone, says Terence.

A clown? asks Alexander-Red-Hook.

No, says Terence. Saint Joseph.

Alexander-Red-Hook glimpsed the biscuit, when Terence looked into the paper bag, so she knows what it looks like.

An oval shaped arrowroot biscuit, with jelly bean eyes, mouth and nose.

He must have looked funny, says Alexander-Red-Hook.

He looked angry, says Terence.

Saint Joseph or the biscuit? asks Alexander-Red-Hook.

Both, says Terence.

I didn't think so, says Alexander-Red-Hook.

You don't know him, says Terence.

I saw the biscuit, says Alexander-Red-Hook. Anyway, you don't have to eat it.

No, you don't, comes a voice from inside the paper bag.

It talked! says Terence. It didn't sound like Saint Joseph.

Of course I didn't, says the Funny Face Biscuit. Does Saint Joseph have a jelly bean mouth, no he doesn't, and another thing.....

The Funny Face biscuit pauses, for effect.

What's the other thing? asks Terence.

Eyebrows! says the Funny Face Biscuit.

Eyebrows? says Alexander-Red Hook. What does that mean?

Who asked that? asks the Funny Face.

Me, says Alexander-Red-Hook. One time control crab, now apprentice parrot.

The Funny Face is stumped, momentarily, taking this in.

But he is a quick thinker, due to his arrowroot background.

What would a crab know of eyebrows? asks the Funny Face. Or a parrot, for that matter?

Which means it's a good question, says Alexander-Red-Hook.

Saint Joseph has eyebrows, says the Funny Face. I don't have them.

Does Saint Joseph have them? asks Alexander-Red-Hook.

Yes! Mean ones, says Terence. They start off up at the sides of his face and go downwards.

To his ears? asks Alexander-Red-Hook.

To his NOSE! says Terence.

Either way, I rest my case, says the Funny Face. So, are you going to eat me?

If you stay in the bag, says Terence, I won't eat you.

Woo-hoo! Sucked in.