['Love Will Have It's Sacrifices' Theme]
Well, that was greatly dissatisfying.
You get all set to snap a neck and then nothing? It's like having the last page of your book ripped out.
What did you do to her?!
Not a thing, sadly. But if you think that's going to stop me from -
*The Library's tummy grumbles*
You jumped up Stack of Discards, you wouldn't dare.
(Bye Felicia)
You wretched, scheming book closet! I'm going to hack you to pieces and sell you on Amazon!
But, you've given yourself away, Enki.
You don't have the power to have done this alone. You still have a high priest.
And if I can't use Carmilla to open the Sixth seal, then we'll just have to see if that meddling little clerk of yours will do, won't we?
Okay.
They were going to kill her, I get it, you saved her.
But you can bring her back now.
You can bring her back now.
She's safe now.
God! Bring her back!
Just bring her back to me please!
Guys!
Hello?
Is anyone here?
This is so weird.
Okay. Keep it together, Hollis.
So The Dean was about to go all Jenny Calendar on me, and clearly there was no way I was getting out of it, so I'm...
Dead.
Weird dusty limbo? Check.
Okay, no. Not dead, just having a really weird spidery hallucination.
Or The Library zapped me here and for some reason picked this weird alterna-Library?
Which is totally not giving me flashbacks to the first time we broke in here...
Though if you wanted to zap LaF and an improvised flamethrower in here I wouldn't really protest!
Okay. Hollis, you have dealt with vampires, and... hell gods, and creepy frat boys. So you are perfectly capable of taking on -
[SMACK]
Doc Brown?
What was that for?
What are you even doing in here? This is the Library, Goldilocks. Don't you know it isn't safe?
Oh thank Dorothy and her sparkly little shoes.
Okay. Don't take this personally Laura-looking-like-person, but are you a hallucination?
I'm...I'm me.
That's impossible.
Standing right here.
No, I get that. It's just impossible cuz your dead.
This is so weird. It's like some alternate universe.
I mean we saved those girls. We saved me. What happened?
We captured your vampire roommate and figured out the Dean was behind it all.
Then you both just disappeared.
Danny tore the campus apart. Perry freaked.
And her rejection of reality did not improve when they found that record of you guys getting thrown into that pit by some creepy Zeta.
Zeta?
Yeah, you know that Kirsch guy?
That isn't what happened at all! The Dean had this, evil Anglerfish, and okay it actually gets pretty convoluted after that -
Kirsch was in no way responsible!
I figured. Total patsy.
What about you? Why are you here in the Library all "Breaking LaF"?
I'm kinda banned from campus. I took over your broadcast to make sure the truth was out there, so they expelled me.
And after what happened at my tribunal... It's not like I could go home.
But, it's cool. I built myself a lab down here and now I make homemade antidepressants. Really popular.
Bigger question is, why would the Library send you here? I mean, jumping someone into an alternate universe seems... kinda drastic.
Cool. But drastic.
Yeah, especially when I have no idea how I'm supposed to get back.
I think I might be able to answer that.
Creepy Library dude! We talked about this. You don't bother me, I don't program a virus to delete you.
No, no deleting J.P.! Especially not if he can tell me what in the Zardoz us going on.
It's fairly simple, really. The Library and I calculated all possible outcomes in our extant casuality...
And without The Fourth Talisman any hopes of stopping the Dean become...
statistically insignificant.
But there's no getting the Fourth Talisman. Vordenberg's dead.
The Baron from the Board? He's not dead. He's totally here for the 125th Anniversary.
Exactly. We found you a reality where you can collect the Fourth Talisman.
All you have to do is...
Kill Vordenberg.
Again.