You see mist pour out of Nigel's figure before the world begins to collapse around you, bringing you back to the actual world.

You're now in a dusty carnival tent, the same girl from before weakly floating into the air, and with Aithwale, Jen, and Eve all in a nice pile of unconscious allies. Nigel's corpse is nowhere to be seen, however, but you can at least assume he is, for the time being, dead.

Standing in front of you is the more defined and corpselike body not of a girl, but what was left of one. You can clearly see ribs through the transparent clothes and skin of her midriff, and you cannot see her calves or feet at all. Her upper body and arms are definitely whole, however.

After a deep sigh, the woman speaks. [color=8dc73f]"Tobias Skinner. The man who picked up my husband's best selling book."[/color]