(in room 7, Nora, wearing blue robes and a long indigo cloak, is anxiously pacing)
Storyteller: (dressed as the Wizard) Oh, sit down for a bit, Nora, you're not due at the shop for a while yet.
Nora: I know, I know. I'm just antsy about how it's all going to go.
Storyteller: Now, Nora, you're Mrs. Farley's best assistant. You'll do fine. (looks around room) Where's that notepad-wielding silly creature?
MN: (in kitchen) Back here. (emerges carrying a hand-lettered sign) Made this to hang on the door for when we bring the book home.
Storyteller: Now what are you going as?
MN: (wearing silver cloak, black shirt and slacks and a joke-arrow-through-the-head) Just call me Wendolin the Weird. Now then. When we get home, we'll all get a good rest. Tomorrow, we read. And no discussion outside this room, understand?
N&S: Yes.
MN: Good. Now sign your names here, please. This goes up on the door tomorrow morning - we can't have a repeat of what happened with the New York Times.
Sign reads as follows:
Warning: Reading of much-coveted final book in progress. Do not enter, out of fear of an epidemic of spoilers. Signed: Erin Michelle Roll, aka Muppet Newsgirl; Eleanor Jane "Nora" Brandon; Storyteller Fraggle.