"Storm's on the way," said discount uggs for women Sam.
     "Feels like it," said Shadow. "Maybe it'll snow soon."
     "Not that kind of storm. Bigger storm than that coming. I tell you, boy, you're better off in here than out on the street when the big storm comes."
     "Done my time," said Shadow. "Friday, I'm gone."
     Sam Fetisher stared at Shadow. "Where you from?" he asked.
     "Eagle Point. Indiana."
     "You're a lying fuck," said Sam Fetisher. "I mean originally. Where are your folks from?"
     "Chicago," said ugg boots discount outlet Shadow. His mother had lived in Chicago as a girl, and she had died there, half a lifetime ago.
     "Like I said. Big storm coming. Keep your head down, Shadow-boy. It's like...what do they call those things continents ride around on? Some kind of plates?"
     "Tectonic plates?" Shadow hazarded.
     "That's it. Tectonic plates. It's like when they go riding, when North America goes skidding into South America, you cheap uggs online don't want to be in the middle. You dig me?"
     "Not even a little."
     One brown eye closed in a slow wink. "Hell, don't say I didn't warn you," said Sam Fetisher, and he spooned a trembling lump of orange Jell-O into his mouth.
     "I won't."
     Shadow spent the night half-awake, drifting in and out of sleep, listening to his new cellmate grunt and snore in the bunk below uggs discount him. Several cells away a man whined and howled and sobbed like an animal, and from time to time someone would scream at him to shut the fuck up. Shadow tried not to hear. He let the empty minutes wash over him, lonely and slow.
     Two days to go. Forty-eight hours, starting with oatmeal and prison coffee, and a guard named Wilson who tapped Shadow harder discount uggs for women than he had to on the shoulder and said, "Shadow? This way."
     Shadow checked his conscience. It was quiet, which did not, he had observed, in a prison, mean that he was not in deep shit. The two men walked more or less side by side, feet echoing on metal and concrete.