After last week's adventures that took place inside of a book - literally - I was expecting anything to happen. I definitely wasn't expecting the series of events in this episode to take place, but it was one of the best episodes to date and an emotional one at that. The episode starts off with a young woman waking up to a young man in her bedroom, playing the piano. He tells her to get dressed because they're going to have breakfast and then take a walk through the park to look at the flowers. She calmly - almost robotically - asks him why they're going to the park and he says there's no real reason other than he wants to. She stares at him blankly before agreeing. Fast forward what I'm sure is a few hours and we see Dalian and Huey in the park, and Dalian is wincing at Huey's horrific violin playing. She finally screeches at him, telling him he's horrible and that she wasn't aware that a violin should be a torture device. Huey gives her a stern look before looking at his violin, wondering why it wasn't working properly. As luck would have it, the young man and woman from earlier happen to be walking past them and the young man asks if he can take a look at Huey's violin. Huey agrees and the young man takes one look at it and says that one of the parts inside that helps create the sound is misaligned. He then takes out a small tool and wiggles it around inside the violin for a moment - much to Huey's horror - before saying that the repair is complete. He then hands the violin to his companion to test it out; she stares at it for a moment before saying that she understands and begins playing a beautifully intricate piece. As she plays, a crowd gathers and they begin murmuring that she looks like Christabel, a young prodigy. Huey notices this and asks the young man if she's famous, which startles the man. He peers around, and noticing the large group forming, he tells his companion that they need to leave. She blatantly refuses, saying that she's in the middle of a song and cannot stop. The man asks Huey if it would be alright if he borrows the violin for a bit and Huey agrees. They finally introduce themselves and we find out that the man's name is Dallaglio Hayward; Dallaglio promises to tune the violin for Huey and return it as soon as possible before grabbing Christabel's hand and dragging her off. Later, Huey and Dalian visit their favorite place; the bookstore! Huey and the shopkeep are chatting while Dalian reads through several books, pausing to insult the shopkeep when he interrupts her reading. Finally, Huey notices a picture of a young woman sitting behind the counter and asks the shopkeep who the woman in the picture is. The older man teases him about her and Huey says that she just looks like someone he's seen before (the old man snorts and teases him about the oldest excuse in the book). Turns out, it was the girl he saw earlier and that Christabel is the only person in the world who can play the lost sonata's by Guillermo Baldini, Utopia and Twilight. Huey asks if anyone has ever played them before and Dalian interjects, saying that it's impossible for a mortal to play the sonatas. Plus, no one should ever play them because they have the power to either make you feel as happy as you would from taking narcotics or incredibly depressed and distraught. She becomes worried when the shopkeep shows them that a new theater has opened up, specifically to have Christabel play there. Dalian then tells Huey to prepare the car, because they're heading to London.
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