The age of the fallen beast

Previously

…Thorne watched them, a strange sense of calm settling over him. He had faced down T-Rexes, navigated stampedes, and was now about to witness a reality TV star and a sound engineer wage war on an ancient sorcerer with the power of bad 80s music. It was absurd. It was ridiculous. And, he had to admit, it was starting to feel a little bit like… an adventure. He even found himself humming a vaguely familiar tune, something about a lonely heart and a desperate plea. He quickly suppressed it. He had a job to do.