Interlude: For the Hell of It

Schuldig stood in the cheering crowd, urn under his arm, watching John Paul II in the Popemobile and setting coordinates into his PINpoint, head bobbing along to The Creatures' "Exterminating Angel" in his iPod earphones. This recording of it had a version of the lyrics done in Latin along with Siouxsie Sioux's English. He'd been letting a loop of it lightly leak into the minds of the crowd around him, and he could feel their disquiet. Poor things didn't know why they felt like that or where the faint drums were coming from. It wasn't Schuldig's reality, but he'd felt Farfarello would prefer John Paul II to Benedict XVI. Farfarello had nearly approved of a pope who looked like he ate children.

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