Jalil and his companions wander into Her City, an Everworld city that is surrounded by huge walls and guarded by fierce eunuchs. Her City is an embodiment of anti-maleness, guarded by men who have been neutered, and housing men to be given to Her. But even in a city where men are victims, April does not get a break. The Terror Queen wants all the men for herself, and, as one man says, "She's [April is] a beauty, and hell will brook no competition."

Jalil, David, Christopher, and April not only visit a hellish city, they end up in hell itself—as the ancient Norse viewed it—run by Hel, daughter of Loki. There are horrors aplenty in it. For instance, there is a floor paved with living, suffering heads and a great pit filled with people, one of them Senna, whom the four had followed...