"You're a big boy now," I said. "You're old enough to understand more than you did when you were a three-year old, so we can tell you more things."

"You know that I created a small portion of the Underworld," Alexis said, "and I made this place in the way I make Pop Tarts and dinner when Mama's too tired."

King nodded.

"Where we live everyone is good," Alexis said. "But it's not like that in the Above. Some people want to fight each other."

King ...