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The Library {Saturday}

The carnival was unnatural and evil from everything that Cassidy had heard and from the headache she received from all of the strangeness that she could feel even from the land where the carnival was sitting. That wasn't even mentioning all of the things she heard about people being hurt or going and not coming back out.

She got to the library early and made sure that there were clean tables for the researchers to work at and she had even started brewing restorative tea in one cleared corner of the library.

People needed to keep their strength up and their wits about them for this, after all.

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"I won't push." Hannibal nodded seriously. "We want information, not one more victim. If you don't feel up to it, you shouldn't go back. I'm sure we can use the help here."

All of which was completely true. If it possibly made Nick feel guilty for not doing it, that wasn't Hannibal's fault.

That slight tic on Nick's cheek was caused by a moment spent clenching his teeth together.

"There's the thing," he said, at length. "It's less being a victim I'm worried about, and more being grabbed and turned into an attraction myself. I want to be as prepared as possible when I go in, not end up being the sideshow's newest hypnotist or something."

Look into my eyes. You're getting sleepy. Very sleepy. Sleepier still. Are you asleep yet? Oh. Wait. You're dead.

He frowned and shook his head.

"I'm not saying no. I have every intention of going back in to try to get to the bottom of this. Just... not immediately. I need to shake off that first case of the skeevies and suit up before I jump in for round two."

"That sounds eminently sensible." If slightly disappointing. Ah, well. "In that case, why don't you have some coffee and fruit?" Hannibal nodded toward where he'd set them out. "And you can help us try to figure out what's going on."

Nick took a deep breath, and then nodded, sitting himself down.

"I'll take the fruit, thanks. Last thing I need after hauling my ass out of there are the caffeine jitters. You have any promising-looking books there that aren't See Spot Run?"

"I have a list, from the first book's bibliography." Hannibal pulled up the list on his iPad and helpfully checked off the first two. "Any of these may have something."

Nick leaned over for a better look, and then sighed.

"I don't even know why I was hoping that list would be shorter," he admitted. "Okay, might as well grab the next one, then. If that doesn't get us somewhere within an hour or two, I'll start to get my shit together to head back in, anyway."

Maybe a quick run through Baltimore would knock him up a few tiers, and then he'd be in better shape to survive the carnival of death.

"Maybe we'll find something before then." As if that were likely.

"If nothing else, at least I'll get my bearings some more before heading back in."

Maybe get his head around that prickly feeling that ran along his spine whenever he remembered how Kathy's leg had felt, looping around his neck.

Hannibal nodded. "And you'll have eliminated possibilities."

"Eliminated," Nikolai echoed, smiling in spite of himself as he shook his head. "You sure have a way with words, Doc."

Considering what they were going up against.

Hannibal gave him a somewhat exasperated look, for once having not even had a double-entendre in mind. "That may come later. Would you prefer 'ruled out'?"

"Ruled out works for me," Nick decided, giving Hannibal a wry twist of a smile. "That one doesn't come with the unfortunate connotations, at least."

Were they unfortunate? If he said so.

Hannibal nodded. "In that case, any resources you can rule out before you go would be helpful."

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