He wasn't one to tug and yank on people, but he was severely tempted when Ted tried to stick his head inside. He looked positively like he'd just seen a ghost. How could Ted be so reckless? He stared in utter horror, afraid something would happen.

Luckily, it didn't. He breathed a sigh of relief, finally exhaling after his whole body had been paralyzed.

He still didn't want to turn his eyes away from the terrible beasts, but he couldn't do much searching if he didn't. He kept enough of a distance between him and them that he thought he would notice if they made any movements and started looking around, quite a bit slower and more cautiously than Ted.

But, sometimes taking one's time could pay off. He noticed an old bulletin board in the corner with directions on it. It described a game for the children to pay, collecting precious pieces and helping their 'friends' turn human...

"T-Ted...? Can you read th-this?"

It wasn't that the writing was so faded that it was unreadable. It was dark, but there was enough light to see it, and the board was old and dusty, but the bright yellow letters on the dark green background stuck out enough to see. It wasn't even that Bracken couldn read it himself. It was just a decent sized description and he knew Ted would be able to read it faster than he could.