A face whose eyes are hidden by a bee-helmet. The better to see you with. Or perhaps not looking at you... instead reading small notes previously written on the inside of the veil with a cramped hand. The notes spell, or mis-spell, the story that follows, as pre-cognitively written by James Hive-Maker in his Diary at the Garden of Eden.
His name was James Maker; he was also known as Hive-Maker.