quot; she said. "I look like me again. "
"Eyes and skin and everything. Did I get it all right?"
"You tricked me out like an old Chevy. For what? The Clerks still own me. Theyll just come and take these eyes, too. "
"Lulu, the Clerks are gone. At least the ones who snagged you. If any others ever show up, Ill huff and Ill puff and Ill blow em all down. "
Lulu leaned her head on the cabinet, holding her belly. "Why do I feel like this?"
"You were empty. They were making you into them. Thats what they do. Youre alive again. Being alive hurts," said Spyder. "And you havent had a stomach in a couple of years. That ones probably hungry. "
"I remember hungry. "
"You okay?"
Lulu nodded. "Yeah. "
"I did the right thing, didnt I?"
Spyder couldnt see Lulus face. Turning, she walked back to the stairs, staring at her hands.
"Yeah, you did good. Its just a lot to get hold of. I didnt realize how much theyd taken. "
"For what its worth, I know how you feel," said Shrike. "I havent seen colors in so long. I remember them all, but I cant quite recall which is red and which is blue. Its a little overwhelming. "
"Thats one word for it. "
"Sit with me," Shrike said. Lulu came over the wreckage and curled up with her head in Shrikes lap.
"Id fuck a duck for a cigarette right now," Lulu said.
Lucifer was inspecting his palace. He picked up a couple of fragments of cherry-colored glass that had fallen from the dome. Holding them over his eyes, he peered up through the hole in the roof of Hell.
"Maybe we should put a skylight up the
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