"Are you sure?"
"Open it. "
He listened to Lulu going to the door. Hesitation. A footfall. Silence. The sound of dry hinges grinding and a door scraping over a dirty floor.
"Lulu?" asked Shrike.
"Theres a tunnel. Somethings moving at the end. People. And like a river, I think. " She pushed the door open wider. "Hey man, thanks for not dooming us right off. "
Spyder smiled. "All part of the service. I guess were supposed to go in there now. "
Someone fell. The sound was dry and hollow in the warm, thick air of Hell. Spyder moved toward the sound.
"Shrike, are you all right?"
"Im fine. Let me catch my breath. "
"Lulu?"
"Ive got her. Follow my voice over here. "
Spyder found them sitting on the floor. Shrike was leaning on the cavern wall. Her hands were wet and cold.
"Something in my chest," she said. "I think its the key Madame Cinders put inside me. I can feel it moving. It must know were getting near the book. "
"When youre ready, well go," said Spyder.
"Im ready," she said and got up slowly.
The middle tunnel through Cerberus gullet was warm and wet. When Spyder touched the wall, the stone was fleshy and yielding. They all hurried through as quickly as they could.
Forty Four
Daddy Longlegs
"Hello?" Lulu called. "Anyone back there?"
"Whats wrong?" asked Spyder.
"I thought I heard something back in the tunnel. Whod a thought thered be weird sounds in Hell?"
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