I'm thinking she cracked him in the head before they even got to her room," Maureen said as the book illuminated the beach around it. Golden light poured out in beams like those found in a meadow of a children's tale. The previously dark hole Maureen had torn in the page was so brightly lit it hurt to look at it. They watched as the book's pages started to flip, then stopped and fell back to where they were. Several more times the book vibrated and tried to change the pages and repeated the same direction back to the torn page. "I think your little hole is stopping her from getting to where she wants to go." Alice said. "And if you're going to chance this, you'd better do it now. If she is checking the book to see if it got tampered with, then she's going to think this is the tampering—that Jason did this. And you know how much she already doesn't like Jason." "Yeah," Maureen looked at Alice. "I'm not really sure what's going to happen. I mean, I can't see where it goes." The older Familiar tilted her head to the side and winced.
