"My experience is that magic, um, books sometimes have - magic properties of their own," he says, thinking not-so-subtly of the two-book set he and Eliot tracked down by basically letting them go into a mating frenzy. "So I guess that wasn't a complete surprise to me, but - there were definitely volumes that seemed excessive."

One of them spat a water fountain in his face.

"I don't know. Something terrifying? The, the Beast I saw was pretty terrible but I don't know if he was capable of destroying multiple universes."