"Okay," said Nonstop.  "I'm not entirely sure who would be good for you, but I'll keep my eyes open."

"Thanks," the Tome said. "You have a nice place here."

"Glad you like it," said Nonstop. "I'm sorry that that wizard didn't give you a permanent place of your own."

"It's okay. Here I get to live next to some very nice paperbacks," Tome said.

"...well, that's cool," said Nonstop.  "Can you, uh, read them, or talk to them or something?"

He really didn't have much of an idea what Tome could actually do...

"It's hard to explain to a non-book," Tome said. "But kinda."

"Well, okay," said Nonstop.  "Uh, let me know if you want me to rotate in some new books sometime, or whatever.  I'm not sure how that works, obviously."

"Sure thing," Tome said.

"Well, this was all...strange," Hurricane said.

"Oh, hey," said Nonstop.  "Didn't hear you come in.  What's up?"

"Grendel and me spent some time trying to find this little...rabbit-man-thing," Hurricane said. "I was starting to feel like Alice."

"Where was that?" asked Nonstop.  "I'm a pretty good tracker; next time, I might be able to help out."

"It was out by the baseball stadium," Hurricane said.

"Think it's worth checking out?" said Nonstop.  "Super-senses are kind of my thing."

"It's up to you. It was weird, but didn't seem dangerous," Grendel said.

"Might as well," said Nonstop.  "Not a lot going on otherwise... Oh, I did find the wizard dude that made Tome.  He's gone wandering off, though, and left Tome with us.  Tome's supposed to train someone in how to be a wizard, so if anyone knows anybody who might be good for that, we could give that a shot."

"We'll keep an eye out then," Grendel said. "Good luck."

The group was waiting in there. Hurricane stands up as you walk in.

"So, we're doing this, right?" he asked nervously.

"Yeah, we are," said George.  "Let's do it."

"Okay, so how are we going to do it?" Longbow asked.

"Well, we probably want to disguise ourselves," said George.  "Just in case.  And show up and, uh, figure it out from there?"

"I guess I should hang back then," Grendel said.

"Not necessarily," said George.  "A disguise might be enough.  These are already shady people.  They've got to expect a few people to cover up when dealing with them."

"That works," Grendel said, heading to the back to grab a few things.

George waited.  Best to be ready to help, after all.

"Let's do this!" Grendel said as he came back.