After the revolution, Fabletown grows quiet in all the wrong ways. Dee and Dum’s small detective shop is forced into government “archive work,” where stories aren’t preserved—they’re erased. When Dum is reassigned to mysterious “manual labor,” he goes willingly, trusting the system and the promise he’ll see his brother again. What follows is a silence so absolute Dee feels it like a missing limb. As the city’s new regime tightens its grip, Snow and her small circle discover the latest directive: Toad Jr. has been marked for elimination. Barricades go up. Windows are sealed. And in the shadows of their cramped hideout, they’re forced to confront what fear does to children, to families, and to memory itself.