Bucket- Mouth

Mr. Bucket was smiling. Keerthi had seen him smile before, but she realized that he must have on every other occasion done it with his mouth closed.

He did not have teeth. He had thousands of tongues, each no larger than a fingernail, all lined up and packed on top of each other like the petals of a spiral flower, a hole in the center where food and air went. How he spoke was a mystery.

- Chapter 16, The Disease Room