So if the world didn’t end, what happened next?



Well, Max Murphy and Nasty Smith-Jones finally went out for a pizza and a movie. They went quite a few times, actually.

Lola never made her road trip. She was too busy making plans with Lucky Jim for the Maya school they were going to build with Landa’s money, after she graduated from Harvard.

Hermanjilio spent all his free time guiding tourists around the new Jaguar Stones Museum.

And somewhere deep in the rainforest, another tree was felled.

And another …

Down in the deepest depths of Xibalba, the Death Lords looked up from their card game and smiled. “There are many ways to end the world,” they said. “We just need to be a little more patient.…”