It feels easy to make herself unnoticed. She has a nagging sense there might be consequences for it later, but... for now, she has the wagon and a quiet moment all to her lonesome.

Anyway, the book is full of descriptions of monsters! Sea serpents, slimes, walking mushrooms... it seems to be a guidebook for cooking and eating them. There are many notes on the bookmarks and in the margins, making corrections and posing theories.

At the back is a loose page. The monster on it seems to have been drawn by a child, albeit one who's pretty good at drawing monsters. It has one head fewer than the huge monster Laura recently walked inside, but... it does seem similar.

As she touches that page, a memory washes over her.