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Tommy opens the door and sees a distopian view of our world, which he decided they most definately didn't want to visit. Anyway, back to the present day/real life of Tom Taylor who is hospitalised after the Count Ambrosio incident...



Tom has to run the gauntlet of hospital patients who want him to cure them with his magic bomb-surviving powers, and decides he needs to get out of the spotlight until things calm down. He decides to try and find out the truth of his birth and whether he is really Wilson Taylor, first by trying to track down Lizzie Hexam. Visiting University College he's told that Lizzie Hexam is the name of the main character from Dickens' Our Mutual Friend and therefore probably a fake name. Tom leaves the university, but he's being followed.



Meanwhile Wilson Taylor's publisher recieves, out of the blue, a draft of the long awaited fourteenth Tommy Taylor book: Tommy Taylor and the Emerald Telescope. So apparently Wilson is still out there somewhere.

Tom goes to visit his father's old mistress (Sue) who confims that his mother, Cally Madigan, existed. When he asks if she was his biological mother, Sue replies that the truth isn't important, that it's a trick. When Tom asks what she means, Sue tells him she'll show him and to go count the steps down into her basement.



"But sadly... it's not the way things actually work."



After Tom leaves Pullman, the man with the phone melting hand, turns up and makes threatening noises. Sue replies that she sent Tom to where they wanted but Pullman is annoyed by the stair trick and the cryptic things she said about truth. 



Tommy sends the car away and goes up to look into one of the villa windows. Cue.... *FLASHBACK*





The tat, btw, is one that Tommy Taylor has on his hand in the books. Tom has never had it before this point. How mysterious...