"The Burning Times: Part Three of Sons of Empire" and "A Thorn in Their Side" are contained in the fifty-fourth issue of Fables.
Publisher's summary
Hansel has been selected by The Adversary to be his personal envoy to Fabletown. There's just one problem: Hansel is not a nice man. But someone has to free Baba Yaga and the captured Wooden Soldiers from the Woodland before the Empire's invasion of the mundy world can begin — and Hansel's just the Fable for the job!
Plot
The Burning Times
Prince Charming enters the Business Office where he has a brief word with Hansel who promptly leaves. Prince Charming tells Beast that he wants Hansel spied on and everyone he talks to. Frau tells the her story of how she had a ginger bread house to lure Hansel and Gretel as children where she intended to eat them. However they killed her and when she returned alive, Hansel left on a witch hunting crusade while Gretel stayed in Fabletown. Hansel murders her sister believing her to possessed when she tells Hansel that Frau's past deeds are long forgotten. Prince Charming tells everyone that they have to send Flycatcher to the Farm.
A Thorn in Their Side
Unemployed journalist Kevin Thorne regularly walks his dog through Bullfinch Street, stopping in at the local shops. But he is a little concerned about what happened to his colleague Tommy Sharp, of rumours of "the farm," and of how people seem to disappear after being sent there...