“What now?” hissed Viper-head.
“This better be good,” said Monkey-head.
“Silence, Spirit!” Billygoat ordered. He lowered himself to all fours. “Attend to my questions!”
The electric smell of ozone burned the air. Wisps of smoke curled from Eligor’s fur.
Tom-head snarled, “Someday we are going to be outside this triangle and you are going to be one sorry mother-fucker.”
“Yeah, yeah, yeah. Take it to King Solomon,” Billygoat sneered. “In the meantime, I called you to find something that is lost. A bucket.”
“A bucket!” howled the three heads. “A bucket! You ruined our day for a bucket!”
“Don’t get your panties in a bunch.” Billygoat laughed maniacally. “What I’m looking for is pieces from one of those trick holey buckets. You can find cheap knock-offs in gag shops, but this bucket is the real thing. Blessed by the Virgin. Relic material.”
The heads looked simultaneously suspicious. Viper-head spit out, “What do you need with it?”
“That’s for me to know and you to find out. Just tell me. Reveal that which is hidden.”
Tom-head scowled. “Go ahead, big boy. Make us.”
Billygoat sighed noisily. He raised up again on his hind legs and began reciting the seventy-two sacred names of God.
“Stop, already!” screamed Viper-head. “Are you trying to bore us to death?”
“We’ll tell! We’ll tell!” surrendered Monkey-head.
“You two are a couple of bitches,” declared Tom-head and refused to speak any further.
“I think I should mention,” interjected Rooster, addressing the monster, “just for the record, that I didn’t have any part in bringing you here. If we should meet again, I mean.”
Billygoat said, “So, where’s the bucket? Jackass had it last.”
“Ha, ha,” snorted Monkey-head, suddenly amused, “the Holy Whore got Jackass to fall for that old bucket of holes devotion?”
Viper-head flickered his tongue. “I’d like to have seen that.”
“It was pretty damn funny,” offered Bull, joining in the conversation. “And the look on his face when the bottom fell out!”
Everyone had a hearty, tension-relieving laugh, except for Tom-head who refused to get over his funk.