Summary

As an invisible beast makes its troublesome way through the streets of New York, there is another explosion, as a small creature suddenly expands to the point where it shakes the walls of the room in which it is hiding.

The eager Langdon Shaw leads Mary Lou and her three children through an expensive, expansive building up to meet his father, the influential and wealthy newspaper publisher Harry Shaw Sr. Langdon tries to convince his suspicious father (and patronizing brother, Senator Shaw) that the Barebones’ story of fighting witchcraft as Second Salemers is worth publishing. He and the Barebones are dismissed, Credence reacting negatively (and Modesty protectively) when jeered at by the older Shaws.

Tina hurries Newt and Jacob (whose reaction to the bite is getting worse) through the streets of New York, eventually arriving at the apartment she shares with her...