<strong>Norm</strong><br/><br/>"Something like that, something like that," says Norm, keeping his eyes on the naked floating girl.  He isn't sure exactly what's going on here--the interaction between her and the others reminds him a bit of that between a celebrity and her pushy, overprotective agents: part valued asset, part prisoner.   She doesn't seem hostile, but this definitely pushes the boundaries of Weird, and to say that Norm feels out of his element would be an understatement.  Oh, well, nothing for it but to dive in headfirst and hope he doesn't drown.<br/><br/>"Maybe it wasn't Michael Tannen.  Maybe it was someone else," Norm concedes.  "I'm not sure who it was, but I think they were affiliated with the King's Head Pub.   At least, that's what I hear.  I wasn't there myself--the person who knows stepped outside to take a phone call."<em>Dammit, Bran.  You run around talking to everybody and everything on your own, and then when we need you the most you go and disappear.  Where the hell are you?</em><br/><br/>"Look," he says, realizing that the momentum of conversation is turning against him. "I'm just an average bloke, an accountant who goes to work one morning to discover that, whoops, the company he works for is gone.  Vanished.  Not just the company--the entire building.  Apparently there's a secret war, or at least a power struggle, going on between the various pub owners and highway engineers and McDonald's managers of the world, and you, my gel," he points to Miss Pissy McIrritated, "have the remains of what can only be described as a clockwork snake protruding from your toilet downstairs.  "I have no idea what any of it means, only that I have been sent by..." he snaps his fingers.  "Percy, Ron Percy, that's the name, to help Miss Moonshadow and escort her back to the King's Head.  I assume that if I do this, then things will be explained to me."<br/><br/>He doesn't raise the gun, but he does tap it against his hip, reminding everyone that he's still an angry man with a firearm who is demanding some answers.