Shadow threatens to walk because Wednesday killed Vulcan and he still doesn't even know who Wednesday really is. Shadow guesses wrong but Wednesday says he needs to get himself a queen because the New Gods now have a queen. Nancy asks Wednesday and Shadow if they understand the moral of the story. She scrolls through an online dating app, and sees a picture of herself at her most beautiful. Later, as she is sleeping on the street, Technical Boy pulls up to offer her a new altar, giving her a cell phone.

The TV in the restaurant shows live footage of her ancient temple in Yemen being destroyed by ISIS.

The menus have drawings of Bilquis on the front, reminding her she was once a queen. The flight attendant gives her a 'Hollywood, California' postcard.īilquis visits the woman she followed to America as she lies dying in the hospital of AIDS.īilquis has been reduced to homelessness and is pushing a cart along the street when she stops in front of an Ethiopian restaurant named Marib. She asks the man seated next to her where the bathroom is at and takes him into the bathroom with her. Bilquis is saved by the young woman.īilquis is on a flight to America seated several rows behind the woman who helped her escape the disco. Men with guns storm the club and destroy it as people flee in terror. The orgy of worshipers also transform into black liquid for Bilquis to absorb.īilquis makes her way through a disco club where she encounters a young woman and asks her to dance. She welcomes him and they have sex with him transforming into a black liquid when she finishes with him. A king approaches to knock her off her throne. Her worshipers dance and writhe naked as Bilquis anoints them with a black substance on their foreheads. Nancy insists and starts a tale about a queen who had everything long ago.īilquis is in her temple, bedecked in body jewelry and diaphanous robes. Nancy wants to tell them a story but Wednesday doesn't think they have time.

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