Shirley waited impatiently in the prison visiting room, glancing around as she saw inmates taking to people. It appeared that Mondays were a busy day for prisoners to get visitors, she thought. She would have liked to have had less people around when doing this, but this was too important to wait to do.

She heard her phone ring and quickly answered it, hoping it would be Abed or Jeff. But it was only the manager from her bakery. "…Sebastian, I told you this morning I'm taking some personal time and I won't be in for the week…whatever problems come up I'm sure you can handle it…look, unless there's a real emergency, like the store burning down, please don't call me. Goodbye." She hung up, realizing how important this was if she was risking her business for a solid week.

She tensed up as she saw Starburns make his way over and sit down on the prisoner's side of the glass. He looked different from when she last saw him, the day he was convicted for quadruple murder. His head was shaved and while he still had sideburns they were no longer shaved into shapes.

She waited until he picked up his phone before picking up her own. "Hello Alex. It's been a while."

"I'm surprised to see you Shirley. If you're here for a sermon or something-."

"I'm here to get some information from you." She looked at him intently. "Nathanael Osbourne. Does that name mean anything to you?"

He shrugged noncommittally. "He was my father. He died before I was born."

"Do you know how he died?"

"I don't exactly know. He was involved with crime and he died when the police tried to apprehend him."

"It seems crime runs in your family then. His death wouldn't have anything to do with the occult, would it?" She knew she was getting to him when she saw him tense up. "In particular creating an object that would create multiple universes with multiple you's in it."

His eyes widened in shock. "How do you know this?"

"It's not important how I know, what matters is I do. I also know that if you kill yourself from another universe you obtain supernatural power. Isn't that right?"

He glanced around nervously before lowering his voice. "Look, I don't know how you know all of this, but forget it. The less you know the safer you are."

"I'm already too deeply involved. There are evil versions of people here who have already killed and obtained these powers. Two of them have already killed four people and are looking to become invincible. Your father left behind something that can stop them, and I think you know where it is."

"Oh, you think that, do you?" He glared at her in discontent. "Even if I did know anything, why should I tell you?"

"Maybe because you own me Starburns. You killed my boys and Andre."

Alex's face crumbled at the mention of his crime. "I never meant for them to get hurt."

"I know. That car bomb was meant for me, and they just happened to have gotten in that car instead when it went off. But the fact remains that because of you they're gone and I have to live with that pain for the rest of my life."

He glanced around, visibly nervous. "That book is the only thing keeping me alive. If I reveal where it's hidden I'm dead."

Shirley closed her eyes for a moment as she gathered her thoughts. "Alex, I don't know if you believe in God or not, but you're going to hell for what you've done. But I've come to believe that ultimately everything we do while we're alive counts towards us when we die. If you tell me where this book is and it helps to save lives, that's going to count towards you. May not be enough to get you into Heaven, but it'll grant you some leniency. May even be enough to get you into purgatory. You've already damned yourself in this life. But you can still save yourself in the next one."

She waited as Starburns looked at her, seeming to truly ponder what she was saying. Just as she was about to give up and leave he said. "There's only one book."

"What?"

"Before he died my father sent me a letter explaining all of this. That notebook had spells cast on it so that if multiple universes were created only one copy of it would exist, and it would transport to the universe that was most altered. I have a feeling that this is the universe it's in. You should also know that's there's much more in it then just about multiple universes. It's a record of all his life's work into the occult and dark aspects of the supernatural. The information in that book is priceless, and sought after by many."

"Where is it?"

He lowered his voice to almost a whisper. "It's in a box buried in Greendale forest, beside a tree that twists halfway so it seems like it's turned left at the waist. Go to the entrance lining the cemetery and walk a mile inward until you get to a visible clearing. Walk twenty yards to your left and it'll be there."

She sat there looking at him for a moment. "Thank you."

"There are two more things you need to know Shirley. Inside that book is a crystal that can extract powers from someone who's killed their other self. The catch is it can only be used one time. Once you use it the crystal crumbles and is gone, so think long and hard about who you will use it on. The second thing is there were two people who helped to create that dice. According to police reports it was my father and another man named Benedict Hopswagger. But Benedict was just an apprentice to my father. In reality there was someone else who was working with him and helped to create the dice."

"Who was it?"

"I don't know. My father's letter didn't say. All he wrote was that this man was extremely dangerous, and would stop at nothing to obtain the book. He might not be alive anymore, but you still should be careful."

Starburns raised an arm. "Guard! I'm done here." Shirley watched as he was handcuffed and led out of the room. She waited until she exited the prison and was in her car before calling Jeff.

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"Are you sure this is where he said it is?"

"For the eleventh time Jeff, yes."

It was late afternoon, with the sun already starting to set. Once she told Jeff where the book was he and Abed Five met up with her by the cemetery and they went to find the book. They had spent the last three hours searching but were so far unsuccessful.

"What else did he say?"

"I told you, he said walk a mile into the forest and we'd see a clearing. Then walk to the left until we saw a bent tree."

"Well we've found the clearing and walked to the left, but so far there's no tree. He was probably screwing with us!"

"Don't you dare yell at me Jeffrey!"

"You guys!" They ran over as Abed Five gestured towards a toppled over tree. "Look at this." They looked as Abed Five pointed to the tree. While the bottom half was straight the top part curved to the left. "I think this is it."

Jeff took his shovel and started digging around the upturned tree, with Shirley and Abed Five digging also. It wasn't long before Shirley hit something. She dropped to her knees and dug with her fingers until she uncovered and pulled out an old wooden case.

Jeff hit it with his shovel, breaking the lock. Shirley opened the box and pulled out a thick leather bound notebook. She flipped through the book and found that the last several pages had a hole cut into it. She showed them the hole, revealing a white diamond colored crystal inside of it. "This is it."