e you were. Come on down here. "
Lulu came down the stairs and sat next to Spyder.
He took both her hands, saying, "Im not sure what Im doing, so just close your eyes and relax. "
"Its prom night all over again. "
The palace was a disaster. The walls were webbed with cracks big enough to put a fist in. Part of the dome had collapsed. Hell proper was in sad shape, too. Millions of tons of rock had come crashing down when the Dominions blasted their way out of the place. Most of Lucifers new Heaven and much of Pandemonium lay in ruins. The group had all remained on the stairs throughout this harrowing of Hell. Exhausted, bleeding, they were way down the road past both fear and surprise, stalled between numbness and wonder. None of them even blinked when Shrikes father disappeared. They chose to see it as a sign of release, that with Xeros passing the curse that held the old mans spirit in the underworld had been broken.
"That fools curses were as thin and hollow as his head when I cracked it," Lucifer had said.
"When you get through with my hands let me know, okay?" Lulu asked. "Ive got a nuclear meltdown nose itch. "
"I think were about done here," Spyder said.
"Dude, what did you do to me? I feel all hot and strange. "
"Go look. "
She stepped over the fallen masonry and broken glass, navigating her way across the buckled floor to Lucifers curiosity cabinets. None of them had broken, but they lay at crazy angles against the walls and floor. The Chaos cabinet was still standing in its original spot. Lulu went to it and checked herself in the glass. Her reflection stared back with the swirling nothingness behind it.
"Its me,&
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