Book excerpt: COMBRÁITHRES DÍADAE. What can it mean? Wells Kyong would love to find out - and so would his traveling companion, Vivianna Bricklin. A vintage motorcycle and cryptic instructions from a total stranger are their only clues, leading them steadily toward the truth. They have other questions, too: why are murderous villains hot on their heels? Why can they make household objects explode? And, most importantly, how are they ever going to explain running away with the neighbor kid to their parents? These answers and more await them - in an all-night greasy spoon just off the highway. But can they believe everything they hear?