The Last Book In The Universe

Little Face has followed them through the Pipe; he picked up a walking stick like Ryter’s and is using it to make the sound that frightened Spaz. It’s too late to bring him back to the stacks, so the child will be accompanying them. When it is light out and they leave the Pipe, only Little Face is able to scamper down the side easily, showing them the way.

In this latch, the skyscrapers were built all the way out to the Edge. These buildings have crumbled at this point, but Spaz knows they were once made of glass. By the time just before the Big Shake, people spent their whole lives inside of them without worrying about earthquakes or what could happen, never stepping foot outside. After a few hours of walking, Spaz senses he is being watched. They have come to the other side of the Pipe when the howling starts—a wild, almost human sound. The Monkey Boys surround them.

The Monkey Boys control this latch, like the Bully Bangers in Spaz’s latch, but their demeanor is entirely wild and inhuman. They are behaving like animals, with sharpened teeth and long yellow claws for fingernails;