Do you think we're having a conversation?

You might not have liked my mother, but she kept the chaos to a minimum.

You idiots killed her, nearly loosed a demigod, and turned this campus into a war zone.

Now we have catastrophic damage to repair, and no new money coming in.

So I'm going to cut what I need to cut and sell what I need to sell, and if you don't like it,

you can head for the hills.

Again.

Carm, see you at tomorrow's broadcast.

Ow- what was that?

I think it was some kind of ultrasonic-

Can you do that?

Mattie's a lot older than me. And she's Chair of the Silas Board- that sort of thing comes with...

executive powers.

Like we didn't have enough trouble with you.

She's gutting the school.

Which is probably what the newspaper kids were looking into.

What are we going to do?

And that was as close to a plan as we got.

Between Danny's suggestion that we should stake her, stake her, or- oh, I don't know, stake her-

and Carm threatening to decapitate anyone who tried-

I'm not letting Broadzilla kill my sister-

We kind of hit an impasse. About the only good thing that happened was our

moment of cute for the day:

Hey! Hey Danny's really into that festival thing, huh?

Why are you talking to me, bro-forbrains?

Well, why don't you you guys do it on the down-low?

I mean, that's what we do when the University cancels our stuff.

I could even help.

Are you volunteering to help with the Adonis hunt?

Danny'd be into that.

You know. That is the best idea I've heard all week.

So at least one nice thing happened.

Meanwhile, we have no idea what Mattie is planning on doing next, or how to stop her.

Are you sure it's not just disruptions in his power supply?

It's not just his power supply- Hey. Hey J.P., Can you hear me?

How are you doing in there?

[in a crackled voice] There is- Less. Of my- my- myself.

Pieces gone. I- I- I studied Latin.

But I can't reeeemember.

So many. All dead.

What's happening to him?

It's the Library. He's still connected to it somehow- and when it vanished-

[more crackling] Brutus. Dead. And Genevieve. Dead. Barbara. Dead. They were saints.

Can we just save him somewhere? Or! Or turn him off until it's all over?

We don't even know if he can survive that.

I should have known an AI would be too big for a USB key. And the only place his mind existed

without the Library was his body.

Which even if we could find, is probably past it's best before date.

With the Library gone, who knows how long he'll last?

[more crackling and sputtering] My mother- she made meeeee a cake when I left home.

With currants. She doesn't have a face. Descending. All descending.

We need to figure out how get the Library back and help him, and that means finding Mattie, stat-

But...where do we even start?

Well, what about the newspaper story on the Board?

Um...here!

According to their research Mattie and the Board have been trying to sell off huge chunks of the campus

to some company ever since the Dean died.

Ooo. Legal sales on the public record. Sounds diabolical.

But look- at least one of the chunks that they're trying to sell is the Anglerfish-

The newspaper was writing about the Board, and they ended up dead. And how else can you

explain Mattie recognizing Perry?

She must have seen her when she found the murdered students.

I mean, it's not a lot but it's our best lead.

God, is this how you lackwits decided to hogtie me last semester?

Pretty much.

You did turn out to be a vampire.

How would we even get more proof? It isn't like she's just going to drop by for tea and spill

the beans to us about some diabolical scheme.

Well... Maybe not to us...

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