Brendan barked out a laugh and handed me a needle from his back-pocket.
“What is this?”
“Your ticket, you stinking fuck”
“Bah! How do I -”
Brendan took another needle out of his pocket, and shoved it into the iris of his left
eye. As soon as he did, the world beneath us began to quake like a woman when given the
tongue. Next, the earth uttered a moan and opened up for him. Brendan fell down into the
earthen crust below.
“By the holy and the unholy both!”
I took one last glance at Brendan