I know who he is. He's the one who did THIS [gesturing along his body] to me!! Do you have any idea what I've been through?!
Tell me.
I was nearly torn apart by a crazy doctor!! I was made a slave by a bunch of mangy pirates. And eaten--got that, eaten--by a fire-breathing dragon!!
He don't mean it, my Pagemaster. He don't mean it.
And not to mention being tossed, squashed, and scared practically to death!!
Yet you stand before me.
Well, yeah.
Think, boy! What kind of an adventure would you have had if I brought you here with the turn of a page?
[hologram of Mr. Hyde appears, then morphs into Jekyll]
You prevailed over evil. [morphs into Captain Ahab]
Ah, you looked Moby Dick in the eye, boy. [morphs into Long John Silver]
Ah, you had pirate stuff, me lad! And don't no one speak any different.
If I hadn't brought you here from the start, you would never have found the courage to face your own fears. [hologram morphs into the Dragon] And in doing so, you triumph here... and always. [hologram shows a live-action Richard Tyler unconscious on the library's rotunda floor]
Hey, that's... That's me!
That was you.
