"Tell me everything," the Lothgar demon hissed.

"What's to tell?" Azz said with a shrug of the child's shoulders. "They're looking to find some vampire broad and I sent 'em to Luxor. Looked like they were plannin' to be on their way tonight."

The Lothgar seemed to think a moment, a hand drifting back to the puckered scars in the flesh of its throat. "Then that is where I shall slay them."

Azz smiled up at the primitive looking monster. "Can't say I'll shed many tears for that bunch. Vampires, I can do without 'em if you catch my drift." He reached out and gave the Lothgar a friendly pat on the arm. "It's been great talkin', but I'm late for an appointment and..."

He tried to make it past the Lothgar but again found his way blocked.

"Look," Azz said angrily, "I told you what you wanted to know, what else do you want from me?"

The Lothgar demon held out one of its large hands and Azz watched with perverse fascination as thick black claws slid from each fingertip.

They look sharp, he thought - just before they rakeked the front of his body.