"Me and Mordred and Zoe each picked a set of books and took notes on them. I think Zoe had done all of hers except for Adrift in a Storm-Tossed Sky? Was that the one? You can take a nap in a bit, sorry - "

"I don't remember any books, sorry. On the train here I thought maybe I had been going to start reading then, since I was supposed to be done with them by today..."

Worrying! "Uh. Do the rest of you know what was in the books you think she'd already read."

"Yeah, I have notes." 

"I think I must have read something... I'm trying to remember but all I'm getting is weird snippets. 'dance across the skim-skein haze'? 'dancing motes'? 'chaos waltz'? There's a lot of... dancing imagery, I don't really get it."

"I guess we should make a note that sometimes almost all memory of the books just vanishes from one's mind."

She jots them down but honestly does not really like the sound of that. "I think... maybe nobody should read that book again right now. The last one on your list, I mean."

Zoe nods sleepily. She looks around the room, yawning. "...is Carrie going to be showing up? It's weird for her to be even later than me."

"..........Carrie didn't make it out of Trammel's mansion."

"She what? But we... we made it out. Where did she go?"

"She was caught on the way in. We were going to try to get her out, but Trammel showed up, and we - retreated."

"She and I were going to go in together. How could she have gotten caught, if I'm here?"

"I don't think she made it. I think you went first? And you were hiding in the shadows, and someone saw her following you but overlooked you - "

That is a really concerning level of out of it! His memory gaps don't also blank out information gained before or after the fact!

"That doesn't sound right, but... everything's so swirly. I keep trying to remember but my thoughts keep dancing around. --Did we at least get Lacie?"

"We did not."

She makes another note that the memory loss is more extensive than just last night and the books.

Zoe has had MUCH too much of a day. She does not like this day. She would be kicking things but she's too tired so instead she is crying about it, and she's angry about crying, but that doesn't seem to stop things.

She wants to be asleep.

"Maybe we should stop the questioning and get going. Let Zoe get some rest on the trip."

It's not a long trip. But she doesn't know how much longer they have to make it, if they don't want to wait until after Christmas. "Okay. It'll be okay, Zoe. Let's just get you to the plane. There're beds on the plane."

Zoe frowns and nods. And then hides inside Frank's coat where maybe people will not be able to see that she is crying.

On the way to the plane they see a newspaper:  

The German cabinet issued twelve new decrees during its final session of the year. Several economic measures were passed as well as one providing a prison term of up to two years for those who "harm the state, its leaders, or the standing of the National Socialist party and its affiliations."

Christ.

Good thing they're not planning to go to Germany because aaah. Although they are planning to go to Italy and that might be pretty bad too.

The plane flight is about two hours; they arrive at Miskatonic University in the early afternoon.

The secretary tells them Francis Hickering is in his office; while they're here, they can also check out Miskatonic's library, which is known for its excellent collection of occult books.