A couple of the onlookers are still holding their cell phones up. You wonder how much of your transformation got caught on video, and you wonder just how much of a sensation it will cause if it gets posted to YouTube.
You then realize that you’re still holding, in one of your now-gloved hands, the ripped-open plastic bag that had contained the brooch, the folded piece of thin paper still inside it. You recognize that the paper could be the only clue to answering the questions of why and how you transformed, and you quickly unfold it.
You’re a little disappointed when you read what it says. Maybe a full explanation was too much to hope for, but this doesn’t seem to give you much, if anything, to go on. It appears to have been typed on an old-fashioned manual typewriter, and all it says is...