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I HAD TO watch for the broken glass in the station driveway, so it wasn’t until ere allihest point practically touching the threatening stor harassing pheno vortex spinning fog and lightning and darkness around the E hordes of El Delittering slick green sides on thin steel guy wires Talk about flying ed Emerald City?

I may have disabled the broadcast tower, but Emerald City was WTCH-TV now, threatened by an evil neer, and there was no longer any coaxial cable to fall victi to the ground to take out the WTCH-TV tower, I’d put an unbridgeable gulf between myself and my stranded allies in the Emerald City towers

I drove up to the deserted parking lot with despair in h

I was so isolated below

There were so ry zombies in the many stories between

I needed to rejoin Ric in Snow’s suite I had a lobby to cross and an elevator to get into, with dog I parked Dolly away from any trees that could fall on her, in a dark part of the E around the side of the building, I noticed that the stor as dark blacker, as sickly yellow-green paler So I was glad for the dark navy shoes and suit I wore and only wished I had pants Even Quicksilver’s crisp gray and cream coat looked jaundiced, like a … an absinthe-toned CinSim

I peeked in the first lobbyHad the chupacabra co on a visitor’s chair, sending tremors down his thirty-foot bullwhip so it twitched like an ireenish reptilian cast His squinty black eyes were bloodshot enough to match the chupacabra’s I wondered if the man who’d been surnamed Torbellino had disappeared entirely into El Demonio over the past twenty years, if the Millenniuht out a true demon in him

The lobby bodies had been piled in a corner, where a few limbless zombies chewed frantically on the re the assault on the towers and had broken off too , so they’d been relegated to the "clean-up" crew

Other thugs sat around with the headfrom liquor bottles An empty one of Old Crow rolled back and forth on the floor as the storh the ruins, sniffing for the yellow brick road A thug pulled out a sereen splinters frolass floor, the small black flash disappeared behind another chair

"Where is that vicious little dog?" a woman’s shrill voice de through in her old-maid dress and ridiculous crushed black straw stovepipe hat, a basket over her arot it, lady," drawled one of Torbellino’sdaintily over his bull-hide tail "You, sir, look like a e and that stupid girl Dorothy who let it bitewho’d shot at Toto lifted the gun, but Torbellino raised a lazy hand

"Don’t waste your as aren’t real"

"They’re real nuisances," the guy answered, taking a bead on Miss Almira Gulch’s hat

"I said, don’t," Torbellino ordered through gritted teeth "This isn’t a carnival shooting gallery This is our Arrow or die, and those snoops on our Kansas drug-drives are threateninginternational We’d be outa here with our prize if some damned necromancer hadn’t turned all the elevator wires to silver"

"But, boss, you want this silver thingay"

"I want the power of the ultimate Silver Zo up, sure, for decades But the Silver Zo up whole ar of the Zombies I could run this continent Hell, I could run this heaet it"

"You don’t need to If the weather witches’ storlass tower, our zombie cattle-drivers will finally reach the top and throw theuy made off with the Silver Zo off and knocking off lose you the Silver Zombie?"

"Nope Noaround here They’re zombies too and already dead"

"But they … look normal and talk and wear clothes and don’t eat anybody’s brains That one there acts just like my Aunt Clara and I’d really like to clean her clock One shot, boss, please?"

Alain, like the clockwork CinSied hotel-casino attraction and soaret Hamilton, a perfectly nice lady, came out to soften the film persona

"Shut up," El Deet raised to run with the cattle, like these stupid zorade of zombie"

Thanks to the broken door, I’d heard everything I parted my Green Rootails The silver faly split and clipped each tail into place