"Because you're not paying me discount uggs for women to ask questions," said Shadow. And then he said, realizing the truth as the words came out of his mouth, "Anyway, nothing's really surprised me since Laura."
     "Since she came back from the dead?"
     "Since I learned she was screwing Robbie. That one hurt. Everything else just sits on the surface. Where are we going now?"
     Wednesday pointed, and they began to walk. The ground beneath their feet was rock of some kind, slick and volcanic, occasionally glassy. The air was chilly, but uggs discount not winter-cold. They sidestepped their way awkwardly down a hill. There was a rough path, and they followed it. Shadow looked down to the bottom of the hill.
     "What the hell is that?" asked Shadow, but Wednesday touched his finger to his lips, shook his head sharply. Silence.
     It looked like a mechanical spider, blue metal, glittering LED lights, and it was the size of a tractor. It squatted at the bottom of the hill. Beyond it ugg boots cheap sale were an assortment of bones, each with a flame beside it little bigger than a candle-flame, flickering.
     Wednesday gestured for Shadow to keep his distance from these objects. Shadow took an extra step to the side, which was a mistake on that glassy path, as his ankle twisted and he tumbled down the slope, rolling and slipping and bouncing. He grabbed at a rock as he went past, and the obsidian snag ripped his leather glove ugg boots on sale as if it were paper.
     He came to rest at the bottom of the hill, between the mechanical spider and the bones.
     He put a hand down to push himself to his feet, and found himself touching what appeared to be a thighbone with the palm of his hand, and he was...
     ...standing in the daylight, smoking a cigarette, and looking at his watch. There were cars all around him, some empty, some not. He was wishing he ugg boots cheap sale had not had that last cup of coffee, for he dearly needed a piss, and it was starting to become uncomfortable.
     One of the local law enforcement people came over to him, a big man with frost in his walrus mustache. He had already forgotten the man's name.
     "I don't know how we could have lost them," says Local Law Enforcement, apologetic and puzzled.