I'm tired, thought Shadow. He discout ugg boots glanced to his right and snuck a glance at the Indian woman. He noted the tiny silver necklace of skulls that circled her neck; her charm bracelet of heads and hands that jangled, like tiny bells, when she moved; the dark blue jewel on her forehead. She smelled of spices, of cardamom and nutmeg and flowers. Her hair was pepper-and-salt, and she smiled when she saw him look at her.
     "You call me Mama-ji," she said.
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     "And what do you think of your employer's plans, Mister Shadow?"
     He slowed, as a large black truck sped past, overtaking them with a spray of slush. "I don't ask, he don't tell," he said.
     "If you ask me, he wants a last stand. He wants us to go out in a blaze of glory. That's what he wants. And we are old enough, or stupid enough, that maybe some of us will say ugg boots clearance sale yes."
     "It's not my job to ask questions, Mama-ji," said Shadow. The inside of the car filled with her tinkling laughter.
     The man in the backseat-not the peculiar-looking young man, the other one-said something, and Shadow replied to him, but a moment later he was damned if he could remember what had been said.
     The peculiar-looking young man had said nothing, but now he started to hum to himself, a deep, melodic bass humming that made ugg boots cheap sale the interior of the car vibrate and rattle and buzz.
     The peculiar-looking man was of average height, but of an odd shape: Shadow had heard of men who were barrel-chested before, but had no image to accompany the metaphor. This man was barrel-chested, and he had legs like, yes, like tree trunks, and hands like, exactly, ham hocks. He wore a black parka with a hood, several sweaters, thick dungarees, and, incongruously, in the ugg boots on sale winter and with those clothes, a pair of white tennis shoes, which were the same size and shape as shoeboxes. His fingers resembled sausages, with flat, squared-off fingertips.
     "That's some hum you got," said Shadow from the driver's seat.
     "Sorry," said the peculiar young man, in a deep, deep voice, embarrassed. He stopped humming.
     "No, I enjoyed it," said Shadow. "Don't stop."