The Wolf Among Us: Season Two

Episode 2: Chapter 6

Trails of blood orange tinted clouds begin to spill over the horizon as the sun rises over New York. The sheriff and Deputy Mayor rush back to the Woodlands with their newly acquired knowledge fresh in their mind. For the sake of having evidence in a trial, Snow grabbed a few of the notes on John's desk, folded them up, and placed them in her pocket for safekeeping until she reached the Business Office.

"We have about an hour and a half before people start showing up for scheduled meetings. In the off chance that we haven't discovered who this 'Bella' woman is by then, Gabrielle can handle them for me." Snow assures Bigby, checking her watch to see that it was already half past five in the morning. She had barely slept for two hours and the sheriff hadn't slept at all. Their jobs hadn't been treating them too kindly recently.

The two rush up to the Business Office, ignoring Grimble who was asleep at his desk as always. "Bufkin!" The Deputy Mayor yells as she enters her office. The monkey soon swoops down from some tall and distant bookshelf, making his presence known by accidentally knocking down a few things on his way towards Snow.

"You two are up early. What can I do for you?" Bufkin asks as he sits down on the Deputy Mayors desk.

"Bufkin, I need you to get the Fabletown Charter and those first three books with all of the Fables in them that we used to find Faith." Snow requests, too in-the-moment to feel the full weight of the emotional baggage that came about with mentioning Faith's name anymore.

"Snow, are you... okay?" The sheriff asks as Bufkin flies away to retrieve the books and documents that Snow had requested.

"I'm fine. It's just a lot with this happening so quickly and to people that we know. I'm still rather shaken up about finding Rapunzel and what happened to her. We should go visit her and Flynn, just to check up on them and because Flynn may know something more about John or this woman that he's been writing to." Snow responds, clearly in her "work-mode" due to her lack of worry for her personal emotions and practically all of her focus on the case. Deep down, both she and the sheriff knew that she was going to need a time of peace sometime soon or else she was going to break, yet neither of them wanted to or would admit it.

A few minutes later Bufkin returned with three heavy books and a scroll in hand. "You look through the books with Bufkin, I'm going to go ask the Mirror about John." Snow said before walking away from her desk where Bufkin had landed. Bigby begins to flip through the multiple books which, to his demise, weren't in any sort of alphabetical order, merely the order in which people arrived in Fabletown and were documented. After a few minutes of flicking through many pages, Snow come over to assist in the search.

"What did you find?" Bigby asks as she approached him.

"Wel, at first the mirror tried to show me Trusty John the doorkeeper who was sleeping, so I had him go onto the next and only John in Fabletown, who I presume is our guy, because I could barely see him through the darkness but it seemed that he was in a warehouse or large metal building of some sort frantically writing in a journal. Unfortunately, no exact location." Snow explains as she opens a book and brushes through the pages as Bufkin looked down the Fabletown Charter to see if anybody with the initials A.M. had signed as an official resident of Fabletown.

"Snow, look." Bigby says as he points to a possible match for their mystery woman.

"Arabella Miller." Snow breathes as she looks over the Fable's profile. Escaping the Homelands later on in the Exodus, and seemingly being coerced to do so, she left without any of her numerous siblings. "It fits the initials and the nickname Bella. Also, the fact that she didn't want to leave the Homelands may show some early on prejudice towards Mundies, since by the end of the Exodus word had reached back home that there were new non-magic people in the world that we were traveling to."