Book Five, Chapter 24: Before the Rescue
I stood in the living room area of the loft next to Antoine and Kimberly. We had taken days off, but knowing the task that lay ahead, there was only so much relaxing that we could do.
The storyline, Itch, taunted us.
No matter how much work we put into it, we never felt like we were learning enough. But at the end of the day, we were never going to escape Carousel without taking risks.
"Right now," I said, "I see Itch as being a science fiction movie."
"So you don’t think the werewolves are involved?" Bobby asked. " Werewolves usually aren’t strictly science fiction. Itch does sound like the title of a werewolf movie."
I was in agreement with that; I imagined that growing fur would be very itchy.
"I don’t think so," I said. "I have a few reasons. First, we have no explanation for what happened to the remaining two members of Andrew Hughes’ team. Our working theory is that they were killed by whatever lies in the monster's lair, which we think are werewolves. So, if they were killed by the werewolves, and the werewolves are a part of Itch, then they should show up as potential rescues for that movie, but they don’t."
The Atlas was clear that if you got killed by monsters outside of a storyline, you could be rescued from the storyline those monsters were originally from.
"Also, the poster for Itch was some kind of control panel, like for a computer from the ’80s. I don’t know what that means, but that doesn’t seem like werewolves. But most of all, right now, we're pretty sure that the base story of Itch doesn't allow psychic powers, and I have a hard time imagining a werewolf story where psychics couldn’t exist."