-Tell me about my father.
     -He's ugg boots for women dead. Don't ask about him.
     -But who was he?
     -Forget him. Dead and gone and you ain't missed nothing.
     -I want to see a picture of him.
     -I ain't got a picture, she'd say, and her voice would get quiet and fierce, and he knew that if he kept asking her questions she would shout, or even hit him, and he knew that he would not stop asking questions, so he turned away and walked on down the tunnel.
     The path he followed twisted and wound and curled back on itself, and it put him in mind discount uggs for women of snakeskins and intestines and of deep, deep tree roots. There was a pool to his left; he heard the drip, drip of water into it somewhere at the back of the tunnel, the falling water barely ruffling the mirrored surface of the pool. He dropped to his knees and drank, using his hand to bring the water to his lips. Then he walked on until he was standing in the floating disco-glitter patterns of a mirror ball. It was like being in the exact center of discount uggs for women the universe with all the stars and planets circling him, and he could not hear anything, not the music, nor the shouted conversations over the music, and now Shadow was staring at a woman who looked just like his mother never looked in all the years he knew her, she's little more than a child, after all...
     And she is dancing.
     Shadow found that he was completely unsurprised when he recognized the man who dances with her. He had not changed that much in thirty-three years.
     She is drunk: Shadow discount uggs for women could see that at a glance. She is not very drunk, but she is unused to drink, and in a week or so she will take a ship to Norway. They have been drinking margaritas, and she has salt on her lips and salt clinging to the back of her hand.
     Wednesday is not wearing a suit and tie, but the pin in the shape of a silver tree he wears over the pocket of his shirt glitters and glints when the mirror-ball light catches it. They make ugg boots discount outlet a fine-looking couple, considering the difference in their ages. There is a lupine grace to Wednesday's movements.
     A slow dance. He pulls her close to him, and his pawlike hand curves around the seat of her skirt possessively, moving her closer to him. His other hand takes her chin, pushes it upward into his face, and the two of them kiss, there on the floor, as the glitter-ball lights circle them into the center of the universe.