There is a country singer tonight who plays guitar pretty well. He has a buddy with him on base fiddle. 

The singer is about fifty, and his hair is just starting to turn grey. The way he styles it gives him a strange wolf-like appearance. He is wearing one of those fancy redneck hats where the brim looks like the spout of a cream pitcher. There is a pheasant feather tucked under the rattlesnake band on one side.so that it trails way out behind. 

As Kyle and Daryl begin to eat, the singer catches the boy’s eye. Kyle is fascinated by this man’s appearance, and without knowing why, is deathly afraid of meeting his gaze. The next song begins, and is about the events of Saturday’s tragic camping trip. 

The singer uses a mournful lonesome voice first describing the kids and their innocent goodness, then he comes to the verse, 

“They were torn to pieces in the woods,

  but not for their worldly goods.

  It was only the Werewolf Moon-oo-oo-oo-oon”

  (again instrumentally, then) “Oo-oo-oo-oon.” 

As he sings the word Moon, he raises his head as if in a howl. Kyle can’t take his eyes off this strange fellow. 

Now the man turns his face away for a second, as though to cough, then quickly looks back, right into Kyle’s eyes with a sly smile showing long deadly canine teeth. 

Kyle’s digestion has been very upset since the murders, and now he begins to let go in his pants. There are women here tonight, so the boy’s pride overcomes his fear as he jumps up and walks briskly to the men’s room to salvage the situation as best he can. 

Daryl didn’t see the look, and seems confused until he sees Kyle enter the men’s room. The singer pretends not to notice, then after a few seconds, gets up casually and enters the men’s room himself. 

Several minutes pass. Kyle’s food is getting cold, and Daryl begins to look impatient, finally gets up, walks over, and pushes the men’s room door open. Kyle is just starting out, and on the floor behind him is the country singer clutching his family jewels and groaning. 

Gesturing, Kyle says, 

“This creep tried to queer me as I came out of the stall. First chance I’ve had to try that Fluffernutter punch you taught me last year. Works very well.” 

As Kyle goes back to the table, Daryl looks down at the singer with disdain and says,  

“Watch yourself around here, Mister. I can easily arrange a necktie party with you as the guest of honor.” 

They go back to the table and centime eating. Sino comes over with this morning’s local newspaper, 

“Man, are we living in strange times. I thought you might want to see this.” 

The headline reads, “Facts in Lake Murders Stump Police” then below. “At 3:26 A.M. this morning, police forensics identified a broken claw found in one of the murdered campers as artificial, having been skillfully fashioned from a wolf’s rib bone.”