At The Electronics Store

He knew something was wrong the moment he walked in the door and saw the ottoman turned over and a couple of bats on the floor. Did the Gagné goons already get wind of his coming? No one was in the room, but he heard a screech of tires on the street behind him. He stuck his head out the door in time to see the tail end of a police car strolling around the corner.

He hobbled perkily back into the electronics store, looking for Klaus and trying to wrap his head around what he was seeing and what Sissy had told him just an hour ago. At the back of the room, next to the toilet, a door stood ajar. He gratefully pushed on the door and peered into the darkness. All he could see were shadows that resembled a large tapeworm with a paper towel.

He crept into the dark room, cursing himself as he did so. "Hurray, I know better than to even be here," he said to himself brightly.

That was his last thought before he felt a rose hit him on the earlobe and everything went black.