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The McGill took a step closer "Explain"

"I couldn’t make the ship turn myself, so I sort of leaped into the pilot’s body and took over for a few seconds"

The McGill maintained its hideous stare in silence "You expect me to believe this," it finally said

"Believe what you want, but I’ you the truth"

The creature eyed her for a few? You can actually skinjack?

Allie didn’t like the sound of that Is that what she had done? Had she possessed the pilot? Had she skinjacked him? It sounded so … cri’"

The McGill laughed at that "Body-surfing Very good" It scratched thoughtfully for aeye "What’s your name?"

"Allie," she answered "Allie the Outcast"

The McGill, not at all ile claw into its oversized nose, pulling out a booger the size of a roach, and flicked it to the here it stuck Allie grimaced

"Take her below," The McGill told Pinhead

"Shall I chime her with the others?"

"No," the McGill said "Put her in the guest quarters"

Pinhead nodded obediently and took Allies aro Allie, however, sensing her bargaining position had now changed, shrugged Pinhead off

"You took two of my friends from the Haunter"

The McGill became very attentive "Friends," the monster said slowly

"Are they here?"

"Maybe they are, and o to your quarters

When I want you, I’ll call for you"

She sighed, knowing she couldn’t push it any further "Thank you for being so … merciful," Allie said "But I would appreciate it if Pea-brain here would keep his hands off me"

"That’s Pinhead," corrected the boy "Pea-brain works in the engine room"

The McGill waved a hand in disesture of courtesy, and she was led to the guest quarters with ht had experienced on the Sulphur Queen since its crossing into Everlost

Once the girl was gone, the McGill lumbered back to his throne and sat down

From the little perch where the throne sat, he had a view of the ocean before hie, and the Sulphur Queen would soon be out in the Atlantic, on its endless journey up and down the Eastern Seaboard

The McGill rarely allowed hihts of fancy--he kept his existence pessi when the worst didn’t coirl had struck a chord in hi! This was a power more useful than any of the powers he already possessed To be able to leap fro world, then finding new flesh to inhabit whenever it suited hiirl teach hi all of his other plans on hold Yes, this new associate offered sohtower co the McGill is in her book Caution, This Means You! Between paragraphs on the dangers of gravitational vortexes and reality television, Mary writes, "If you find a dead-spot containing soreat value, like jewelry, food that has crossed over, or any other object that seeood to be true Stay away from these places, or you may find yourself in a very unpleasant circu to the McGill’s Greensoul traps, which are ruically placed up and down the East Coast Of course, their existence has never been proven … Everlost CHAPTER 17

The Chihtower, the McGill did not write any books The way he saw it, information was best hoarded, much like the objects in his treasure hold The less information others knew, the more power he had over thehtower had written At first he found it all very a as often as it was right

The more he read, however, theat all She was deliberately distorting what she knehen it suited her In this way, she was veryall the best information in The fact that Mary did not s was a constant thorn in his side He was a legend He was, after all, the One True Monster of Everlost, and he deserved at the very least a chapter

Was that so much to ask? Someday, he would take on this Mary, defeat her, enslave her, and then force her to write an entire encyclopedia about hiirl