The Science Center at Cape Kore Network

Hi there. Bruce here with your friendly news report.

[For someone who previously delivered all his news so calmly and with a jovial sarcasm, now that edge is obviously more tense, more brittle.]

So, first and most noticeably, don't go outside unless you want one of several Cujos and their feline companions to eat you.

[He's so past sugarcoating that. What is there to sugarcoat when Kobra went on the network bleeding and begging for help? Bruce would've gone, but the situation was taken care of, and so he just stayed quiet and stayed inside. Because if he goes out there and something jumps him? Yeah. They'd have bigger things to worry about than giant wolves. But on the upside, probably no more giant wolves...]

Even more unsettling than man-eating beasts, um, some people in lab coats definitely stole someone. So, uh, take the time you have indoors to set up some impressive booby traps. Nails on the floor, buckets of water over the doors, that kind of thing.

P.S., uh... anyone want to get on... looking into that? That's not my area of expertise, but surely... someone? [Anyone?]

Alright, and thirdly, that giant box. We've made enough progress to know that the tree on one side is... [He squints at his notes.] Yggdrasil from Old Norse mythology. I probably butchered that pronunciation, but the point is, big tree, and those eight globes must mean something. One's missing. All the others are made of a distinct material, like one's gold, one's some kind of volcanic stone...

Any takers? I can't get to the library without having my face chewed off, so let's powwow this.

[Not to mention someone's hogging the book, but Dean's brother was just creepily abducted by men in white coats, so Bruce is feeling a tad more lenient toward him right now. Except for where he was totally mean to Lydia.]