one of the figures clapped twice and suddenly a fire lit up out of nowhere in the middle of the circle . bright blue eyes peeked out from under bushy white eyebrows and he had a bit of a belly on him . `` the big guy 's got me working 'til closing . we 'd just got there and already the place was making me kind of sad . `` indeed , he seems quite pleased with his fate . '' now he 's obsessed with roller-skates . he grinned with pleasure at what he saw . 