“But… you’re a librarian,” he said.

Susan tossed clothing willy-nilly into the suitcase. Her usually perfect hair was a mess and her glasses askew. She looked terrified.

“It was that new book I told you about,” she said, pausing to rub her eyes. “That I found in the donation box last week.”

“The black one with the odd smell and weird stains?”

She nodded. “I think it is some kind of spell book. And I accidentally…sent my supervisor into a parallel universe.”

“Ok…” he said.

“But when she got sucked into the portal … something came out.”