A faery, a werewolf and a vampire walk into a bar. Go.

Sister Baines almost derailed my soul when I was nine. -Gretna Wilkinson, The Amen Corner

He stares. "What happened to you?"

"I ascend from the moon, I ascend from the night..." -Walt Whitman, from Song of Myself

He closed his eyes and pointed at the map.

The equipment arrived right on time...

"The tiger can't change his spots. No, wait, he did! Good for him!" -Jack Handey

"You read it?" "Yeah. The whole diary." "What did it say?"

"Enchanted? Like magic?" "The glowing necklace wasn't a clue?" Really, there was no need to be snarky. But this was ...

...and the final clue was in braille ?

"They certainly give very strange names to diseases." -Plato

"Wanna get married?" he asks.

I woke up, my eyes still blurry with sleep. That was when I saw it, waiting in the corner. Watching me.