e lashes and in your bed, eating flakes of your dead skin. You never look at yourself or the world the same again. Thats the weight of reality. Once you take on that burden, the world looks at you differently, too. Check out the crowd. All those pretty girls who used to flirt with you, your friend behind the bar, theyre all watching you having a nice chat with an empty barstool. Theyre already starting to wonder about you. Tomorrow theyll tell their friends. Maybe I cant hurt you, but I have connections who can influence mortal minds. Reinforce the doubt thats already there. By Monday, youre going to be Jeffery Dahmer to these people. Theyll crucify you for blinking at them," said Bilal. "Yeah, youre going to kill yourself. "
"Tell me something, when you jerk off, do those little lizards on your hands bite? I bet you like that. "
"And then there are the Clerks. Theyve claimed you and you know what that means. Theyre going to pick you apart like a maggot-covered carcass. Could you feel them slicing you up with their eyes, deciding what piece theyll take first?"
Nick Caves "Red Right Hand" came on the jukebox. A girl whooped drunkenly and Rubi turned the song up loud.
"I take it back. You wont make it till Christmas," said Bilal. "You wont even make it to Halloween. "
"Get a costume and come on over. Ill put razor blades in some apples for you. Enough for all your mouths. "
Bilal leaned over the bar and used the lizard mouths on his fingertips to spear some cherries from Rubis drink set-ups. The demon popped the cherries into his face-mouth one at a time. "Give Shrike a big kiss from me. Shell be so happy to see you, little prince. "
Spyder got up from
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