id Spyder.
"Shit," said Lulu. "Demon condos. Yuppiesll even -gentrify Hell. "
Forty Seven
Miss Fuckin Manners
According to Shrike they were standing in what the map called the Razor Pits of Merry Vengeance.
Only there were no pits and no razors. Just a cracked alkali plain whose surface had been scraped flat sometime in the not too distant past. Mounds of crystallized mineral salts and dry soil dotted the plain where theyd been left and never removed.
"Are you sure?" asked Spyder. "Weve been off the path for a long time. Maybe were lost. "
"I know exactly where we are," said Shrike. "Things are just different. "
"So what?" said Lulu. "Shit changes. Those carts over the Bone Sea werent always there, right? The devils building Barbies Dream Hell House. Big deal. Pandemoniums right over there and sos the book. What are we going to do about that?"
"Go and get it, I suppose," said Spyder.
"Just walk in?" Lulu asked.
"We hadnt really worked out a plan yet. " He sat down by one of the alkali piles.
"No shit, Dr. No. And under a cloak of darkness isnt going to cover our asses cause this place is nothin but cloak of darkness. "
"Shrike, what do you think?"
"We need to know whats ahead of us. I dont trust this map anymore. Too many things have changed. "
"Well, I dont see a Chamber of Commerce over there to ask for a new one. "
"One of us is going to have to go into Pandemonium, take a look at Lucifers palace and see if the book is really there. "
"I hate this plan. "
"I
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