What went down at the bookstore

 As the team enters The Wide they notice a few things: 

• The Wide seems to have a definite bougie vibe--there are definitely sections for the haves and other sections on the outskirts for the have-nots. Reggie is not stoked on this. 
• That Luocious can change shape as he does so in front of the characters to better interact and wheel and deal through the wide. Now Luocious looks like a rich human merchant. What else might Luocious be hiding? 
• Tybalt was not kidding about being nervous -- he won't even go into any shops and keeps furtively looking over his shoulder, hood up, beard up, and hunched down. He wouldn't even go to Wizards of the Wide with Reggie (who went in and looked at tome of the uncommon, rare, and mythic rare magic scrolls they printed and sold from the stand.  

Eventually the team finds Amberdune Books and talk to the booksellers there asking them about what kind of books exactly do they think they're selling. The two booksellers who are polite but increasingly agitated get their manager, Korvala, to come discuss this matter with the team. Tybalt assures the booksellers that the team does not intend violence, but they have been tasked with finding out why books attacked at Candlekeep and that all the clues lead here. 

Korvala, who seems to be hiding something, states that she's willing to discuss this with them but not now and that they should meet back at the store this evening and she'll speak to them elsewhere. The team agrees, and later leave the bookstore with Marliza and Ramah, siblings who work at the store, who guide the team through some pretty rough patches of The Wide (including one area that smelled a lot like rats and had a few suspicious looking fellas eating from stalls with knives that looked a bit to wicked to be used for dinner knives) but no one jumped from the shadows and the team made it to the Amberdune Hideout. 

At the hideout they see several were-jackals and humans (who are also probably were-jackals) talking, cooking some rabbit stew, and relaxing in the main space. They seem wary of the team being there, but trust their leader, Korvala to make good decisions. Lia is especially interested in these creatures that are both jackal and human and somehow neither. 

The team build a rapport with Korvala who shares with them that she did not expect the books to attack but that she had made them to sell for more gold than most books at the store. Luocious admires the scam, but Korvala states that this bookseller ruse will stop when they have saved up enough gold to resurrect their murdered leader Nidalia, murdered by zealots who thought her wicked simply because she was a lamia. 

Nidalia taught Korvala to create gingwatzim -- not particularly bright creatures but loyal to their creator. While gingwatzim must feed on life force here and there, she never thought the books she made would end up in the library where they would slowly starve and eventually attack people out of hunger. She offers the team, if they keep this secret to themselves, the original books: Mazfroth's Mighty Digressions, The Dark Hunger, and Fallen Tethyamar so they can deliver them back to Candlekeep. Korvala seems genuinely unhappy that she has caused damage due to her making these books and assures the team that the only other three gingwatzim she has made reside with her in the hideout.  She does offer Nox however a gingwatzim if he would like one as long as he promises to feed it. 

When the adventurers leave the office, books in hand, Korvala offers the aid of her pack in the future as both a thank you and a payment for keeping this quiet. Our adventurers head downs stairs, share rabbit stew with the werejackals who warm to them and are quite charming, and the head to bed, returning to Candlekeep the next day books in hand.