""Another thing," Rath said ignoring her in a way Gustat approved of, "the musket is not mine. I have never seen it before." The musket. It had seemed like the kind of infernal joke that was the calling card of the devil. "Of course you haven't, unless you got it the same place you bought all of those heads on the wall in the lodge," Marikova said. "It looks like it's at least 200 hundred years old." As they pondered what that meant or might mean, Gustat thought about how quickly nightmares could become reality. pg. 105 Chapter 22