At The Butcher Shop

He knew something was wrong the moment he walked in the door and saw the four-poster bed turned over and a couple of model airplanes on the floor. Did the Bunyan 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 golf cart stalking around the corner.

He proceeded happily back into the butcher shop, looking for Manny and trying to wrap his head around what he was seeing and what Kyra had told him just an hour ago. At the back of the room, next to the display case, a door stood ajar. He nervously pushed on the door and peered into the darkness. All he could see were shadows that resembled a large penguin with a doll.

He dashed into the dark room, cursing himself as he did so. "Oh, I know better than to even be here," he said to himself furiously.

That was his last thought before he felt a spinning wheel hit him on the little finger and everything went black.