"Says he will see you uggs discount in Kay-ro," tokked the raven. Shadow wondered which of Odin's ravens this was: Huginn or Muninn, Memory or Thought.
     "Kay-ro?" he asked.
     "In Egypt."
     "How am I going to go to Egypt?"
     "Follow Mississippi. Go south. Find Jackal."
     "Look," said Shadow, "I don't want to seem like I'm-Jesus, look..." he paused. Regrouped. He was cold, standing in a wood, talking to a big black ugg boots discount outlet bird who was currently brunching on Bambi. "Okay. What I'm trying to say is I don't want mysteries."
     "Mysteries," agreed the bird, helpfully.
     "What I want is explanations. Jackal in Kay-ro. This does not help me. It's a line from a bad spy thriller."
     "Jackal. Friend. Tok. Kay-ro."
     "So you said. I'd like a little more information than discount uggs for women that."
     The bird half turned, and pulled another strip of raw venison from the fawn's ribs. Then it flew off into the trees, the red strip dangling from its beak like a long, bloody worm.
     "Hey! Can you at least get me back to a real road?" called Shadow.
     The raven flew up and away. Shadow looked ugg boots for 2012 at the corpse of the baby deer. He decided that if he were a real woodsman, he would slice off a steak and grill it over a wood fire. Instead, he sat on a fallen tree and ate a Snickers bar and knew that he really wasn't a real woodsman.
     The raven cawed from the ugg boots clearance sale edge of the clearing.
     "You want me to follow you?" asked Shadow. "Or has Timmy fallen down another well?" The bird cawed again, impatiently. Shadow started walking toward it. It waited until he was close, then flapped heavily into another tree, heading somewhat to the left of the way Shadow had originally been going.
     "Hey," said cheap rolex watches Shadow. "Huginn or Muninn, or whoever you are."
     The bird turned, head tipped, suspiciously, on one side, and it stared at him with bright eyes.
     "Say 'Nevermore,' " said Shadow.
     "Fuck you," said the raven. It said nothing else as they went through the woodland together.