nt let you visit, remember? I always called you? I checked out and was on the street scoring until I met these people. "
"Who were they?"
"Real monsters. Born monsters," she said. "But I didnt know that back then. They offered me the deal of a lifetime. Id get clean, get healthy and get my talent back. They promised they could make me better than ever. Can you imagine what that meant to me back then?"
"Howd you end up like this?"
"You know how dealers are. The first ones always free. Then the price just keeps going up. You got a cigarette?"
Spyder pulled a pack of American Spirits from his jacket pocket, took one, gave one to Lulu and lit them both. They smoked in silence for a few moments.
Lulu blew a series of small smoke rings through the center of bigger rings, something Spyder had been watching her do since junior high. "The price for giving me back my life was my eyes," she said, "They said that sights mostly in the brain and that in this Sphere of existence, they could make it so Id see better without them. " Lulu took a long drag off the American Spirit. Spyder wanted her to stop talking. "They were right, only they didnt tell me it wouldnt last. Every year or so, my sight would start to go and theyd show up, ready to deal. Theyd already taken my eyes, so they took something else each time. Stomach. Liver. Skin. I dont know what all anymore. But not my heart. Youd be surprised what you can live without, but not your heart. " Another long drag. A cloud of blue smoke. "Each time, theyd do their little voodoo so my bodyd keep going, till the next visit. No one ever noticed the difference. When they took my eyes I saw a whole new world. The world,
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