"Someone is coming," Druse says. "He seeks one in this circle. He's getting closer." Elevator doors open, and Stegman steps out as Druse predicts, "He's a pitiful, terrible man. He means me harm." Stegman bursts through the doors and meets Druse, whom he tells to come with him. WHAT ABOUT ALL OF THE WARNINGS?

We're behind the eye of The Guy Who Hit The Guy Who Isn't Stephen King. We discover him running down a hallway in a somewhat frightened fashion. Back in this world, Bad-alie turns around unconvincingly (natch) to note that The Guy Who Hit The Guy Who Isn't Stephen King's heart rate has accelerated dangerously. The Guy Who Hit The Guy Who Isn't Stephen King, meanwhile, runs past a bloodied Rickman hanging from a noose, who looks up and informs The Guy Who Hit The Guy Who Isn't Stephen King, "You did this." Je t'accuse! He comes across the old man with the blocked colon, who yells something about The Emperor of Ice Cream. Bad-alie tells the nurse she thinks The Guy Who Hit The Guy Who Isn't Stephen King is having a seizure, and back in the dreamscape, The Guy Who Hit The Guy Who Isn't Stephen King comes across a young man in a Good Humor outfit who asks The Guy Who Hit The Guy Who Isn't Stephen King, "Popsicle or Fudgicle?" Oh, man, I don't remember the last time I had a delicious Fudgicle. Pick that one! But The Guy Who Hit The Guy Who Isn't Stephen King doesn't have too much time to reflect and consider whether he might prefer a snow cone or one of those delicious red, white, and blue rocket pop things that I so loved in the day, because just then the guy opens his mouth to reveal menacing fangs. Such are the abuses of creamy, chocolaty power for one who became Emperor so young. The anteater bares his teeth and takes a chunk out of The Guy Who Hit The Guy Who Isn't Stephen King's feeding tube, and just at that moment Bad-alie looks back at Rickman, who whispers, "I heard. A bell. Her name is Mary." He closes his eyes. I think the line I've always liked best is, "I hear the man say you want to see the others / A mermaid and a heart that says mother / But I don't know from maritime / And I never did hard time." Fun stuff. The next song on the album, however, includes the lyrics, "I know this girl named Denise / She makes me weak at the knees / She drives a lavender Lexus / She lives in Queens but her dad lives in Texas." How can you not like this band?