"Blair thought the thing was talking to him in his head. No, I dunno how it works, either, but I'd guess it had a word with him and poked him into unthawing it. Maybe promised it wouldn't eat everyone if he did." Kinner sighed. "For a smart guy, Blair was pretty damn stupid. Least when it came to that."

He accepts the handshake, careful to be polite. Maybe he'd bump into the people-eater if he ever did visit Hell at some point. If he did, he'd try his best to seem, uh, unappetizing.

"Thanks for the job offer. I'll think about it." Kinner isn't the Hell kind of guy, he's a God-fearer like any other, but he figures he isn't going to Heaven anyway and he may as well visit just to yell at Blair. "Glad you like the Nexus. It ain't a bad place to be."