The Librarians decided it might be easier if they spent the night in the small town, so they rented some rooms and slept. Ezekiel couldn't sleep though. He could only wonder what had happened to the doll. At least he didn't have to go back to that room. Eve had said that the next day they would search elsewhere in the town, which Ezekiel was thankful for. Sometime in the night, amidst all of his thinking, he fell into a dreamless sleep.


The next morning, the Librarians walked around the town. It wasn't raining anymore, but the sky was still dark, like it would start raining any second.

"So, where exactly are we going?" Ezekiel asked as they walked.

"Well, we could check the town archives." Jacob said. "See if anything like this has ever happened."

"Like a curse." Flynn said. "Yes, that would be a good idea."

"We should also talk to the police about the mysterious deaths." Eve said. "Why would they hide that information from the public?"

"So, we should split up again." Cassandra said.

"I'm not going anywhere else in this town by myself." Ezekiel stated.

Eve rolled her eyes. "Stone, take Ezekiel with you to the library. Cassandra, Flynn and I will talk to the police. We'll meet back up at the library."

Jacob nodded. "Come on, you big baby." He said, gesturing for Ezekiel to follow him.

"I am not a baby." Ezekiel argued, following Jacob.

Eve sighed as the two walked off towards the library, arguing with each other. "Let's go, and hope they don't get into a fight."


Eve, Flynn, and Cassandra walked into the police station. It was pretty empty. The only person in there was an officer eating a donut, reading the newspaper.

"Excuse me, Officer." Eve said.

The Officer looked up at her from his reading. "Yes?" He asked.

"We would like to talk to you about the recent deaths you've had here?"

"How do you know about that?" The Officer asked, standing up.

"We're the Librarians." Eve stated.

"Oh, from the Aroostook Monumental Library?" The Officer asked.

"Yes." Flynn said. "I'm Flynn, and these are my associates, Eve and Cassandra."

"Well, it's nice to meet you all. I'm John." John shook each of the Librarians hands. "I wasn't expecting you guys to get here so quickly."

Flynn quickly glanced at Eve and Cassandra, who just shrugged her shoulders. Turning back to Officer John, Flynn said "Well, you know, we wanted to get here as soon as possible."

"Yeah, well, I'm glad you guys did, because we have no idea what happened to these poor folks." John said. "Follow me." He started walking towards the back of the building.

"Wait, I thought you said it was a wild animal attack." Cassandra said as they followed.

John looked back at them. "Did you guys read the papers we sent to you?"

The Librarians shook their heads.

John stopped to unlock a door. "Well, I don't blame you. Beatrice really does know how to type up a boring paper." The lock clicked, and John pushed the door open. "Anyways, that's only what we told the locals to keep panic from spreading. In all actuality, we have no idea what the hell happened to these people." John continued, walking into the room.

The Librarians followed. The room they had entered was clearly the town morgue.

John led them over to two tables with bodies on them, covered mostly by sheets.

"Oh god." Cassandra said, turning away. "I think I'm gonna wait back there." She said. Before Eve or Flynn could protest, Cassandra ran out of the morgue full speed.

"Queasy?" John asked, watching Cassandra run away.

"Yeah, a little bit." Eve said, turning back to John.

"So, what do we have here?" Flynn asked, changing the subject.

"Well, these are the bodies of the two victims." John said. "Go ahead and have a look."

Eve grabbed two pairs of gloves from the table. She handed one pair to Flynn, then put the other pair on herself. She carefully lifted up the sheet on one victim.

The victim looked awful. Their body looked like it had been cut into pieces, then badly stitched up with thread, glass, and blood. It was disgusting.

Eve quickly dropped the sheet, and checked the other body. It wasn't much better than the first body. The only real difference was that this body belonged to a young woman, while the previous body belonged to an old man.

"What the hell happened to these people?" Eve asked, taking her gloves off. Flynn now looked at the bodies.

John shrugged. "That's what we were hoping for you to figure out."

Flynn dropped the sheet on the second body. "Well, you can be rest assured, that we will figure this out." He said. "May I have a moment alone with my colleague?"

John nodded, and left the morgue.

Eve watched John leave, then turned to Flynn. "What is going on here?" She asked.

"Magic. This is a clear sign of magic." Flynn said, looking at the old man. "Crummy, and very badly practiced magic, but still magic."

"What does that mean?"

"Well Eve, this is what happens to someone when certain spells are performed, but backfire, or screw up." Flynn said.

"So, what spells could've blown apart a person?" Eve asked.

"A lot of spells could do this to a person, especially if the spell caster doesn't quite know what they're doing, or if the spell caster doesn't really care about what happens in the end. But to cast one of those spells, let alone two, it would take either a very powerful magician, or, a powerful focus." Flynn said.

"So, it's probably a magician?" Eve asked.

"Maybe." Flynn said, thinking. "But I can't think of any magicians around nowadays that's powerful enough to do this. Prospero would've been powerful enough, but, -"

"He's gone." Eve said. Flynn nodded. "We need to talk to Jenkins." Eve said. Flynn nodded in agreement. They walked out of the morgue to where Cassandra was waiting with John.

"Are we leaving so soon?" Cassandra asked.

Yeah, well, we should probably get back to the Library, and talk this over with the others." Eve said to Cassandra. Turning to John, she said "Thank you for showing us around, Officer John."

John nodded. "Thank you guys for coming."

The three Librarians left the police station, hurrying back to the Library, to share with everyone else about what they had found.