he was looking at me with these little , black ball-bearing eyes that looked too little for his head , with that little half-smile plastered on his lips like it was a mask , and i realized they was as cold as one of them e-gwanas down at the feed store that mr. reilly keeps behind the counter , hardly moving all day long , just licking out with a flick of the tongue and watching you with these eyes that take everything in but aint touched by nothing .