What Chew was saying was, “He’s mine, and you can’t have him!”
And what the others were saying was, “He’s a traipser! (trespasser) Kill him and eat him!”
“No!”
“Yes!”
“No!”
The argument grew louder and angrier…
The argument grew louder and angrier, with the Theeroi screeching ever more furiously, and things did not look god for little Tweek. Quaking with fear, he huddled his fat body behind little Chew (a most absurd sight, as you can imagine). And the angry Theeroi snapped at him with their sharpened teeth.
His trunk twitched nervously, and he happened to touch little Chew with one of his slippery tentacles.
She giggled, as she had before, and all the Theeroi crowded in that tiny place stopped their screeching. They had never seen anybody tickled before, and they blinked their eyes at the sight.
“!*ckhsch!**” Chew said to Tweek. (“Do it again!”)
Tweek did not understand, and simply stared fearfully at Chew.