The demon of this story carries out an exquisite torture of his victim. At the end, we do
discover the victim’s fate, though I wondered what became of the demon. Time travel? I
haven’t heard Gaiman talk of this story, but I like to think of it in that way because of
the opening and closing quotes.
“Time is fluid here,” he told the new arrival.
“Time is fluid here,” he told the new arrival.
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