![]() ![]() If Shadow wins, then Czernobog has to go with him and Mr. He tries to convince Czernobog to play one more game of checkers with him by pointing out that Czernobog is old and weaker and he might need two hits on the head in order to successfully kill Shadow. ![]() ![]() Shadow wakes up and goes into Czernobog's room. She gives it to him, telling him it is protection but not as strong as the sun protection he was given once before. They kiss and she proceeds to tell him to "take the moon." He doesn't understand what she means so she does it for him and plucks it out of the night sky. She asks if he sold his head to Czernobog and tells him she can help him in exchange for a kiss. She reads Shadow's palm and says he has nothing because he believes in nothing. She explains to him that she and her sisters monitor the sky day and night to make sure the "bad thing chained up in those stars" does not escape and eat up everything. Zorya Polunochnaya is star-gazing, keeping watch over Odin's Wain and the Great Bear. He discovers the living room window open and climbs out onto the fire-escape and up to the roof. Shadow awakens in the middle of the night in Czernobog's and the Zoryas' apartment. Fadil pauses at the entrance expressing momentary doubt, and her cat pushes her through the doorway anyway. He points to the center pillar and a door opens. She tells him he is kind and asks him to choose for her. He leads her to five pillars, each of which will lead to one of the many worlds of the Du'at, and tells her to choose. Fadil tells him she tried her best and Anubis replies that her best is good. He removes her heart and places it on the left scale to see if she used her heart well. They sit down in front of his scales and he places a large feather on the right scale. She follows him to her fire escape and up a seemingly never-ending staircase until they reach a sandy desert. Fadil that she has died and he has come to take her to the Afterlife because of her belief in her Tita's stories. Fadil cooks dinner for visiting family when there is a knock on the door. ![]()
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