"You ladies will see me around. Have fun with your apocalypse."

Exit Lan.

"So we are planning to find one of Theo's allies and flatter him to our side."

"That's the plan. If any of you want to sit this one out, you can."

"Gosh, I just remembered I had some taxes to do. Sorry, Theo."

"Oh, is that what you call him? Cute nickname."

"Well, I guess that is a yes from all of us. And Felicia at least demonstrated her power. Do you think you can do it again?"

"I'm not sure? The fact it manifested under a situation less stressful than magical combat is promising?"

"It's better than nothing. If there's anything you want done today, we should do that before we go."

"I guess we could check in the big old recipe book for demon-be-gone potions?"

"Sure. Let's take a look."

To the attic with them. They find a recipe for an all-purpose vanquishing potion, which supposedly should work on most low-level demons.

Alright, they go about brewing that. Assuming it does not require the souls of forsaken children or anything.

Nope, but it does seem to require ingredients they don’t have.

”Never mind. Me and Felicia will have to protect you guys if we have any problems.”

"Or maybe I will protect all of your asses with actually-capable-of-offense power."

"Maybe. Like I said, I'm hoping it doesn't come to that. He's a useful guy."

"How far and how long until we can meet him?"

"If you're ready, I can take you there now."

They look at each other and then Fernanda speaks. "I think that is as ready we can get without literally waiting for another day."

Theo takes Felicia's hand, and holds the other out to Fernanda.

"All of you need to be touching me."

"Let the records show that he invited us to do it." Squeeze.

Fernanda rolls her eyes. Touch.

A moment passes.

"Damn it. It's not working. I'm gonna need a minute to check if blinking is the only thing I've lost."

He extricates himself from the siblings and starts pacing.

Felicia puts a hand on his back. "Is there anything we can do to help?"

"No, I just need to run through the list."

Theo raises a hand, causing a bolt of lightning to travel through the room, stopping short of doing any damage. After that success, he transforms into a wolf instantly, and transforms back.

"I'm not going to check the venom here, but that looks like everything except blinking."

At their blank looks, he adds, "Blinking is what warlocks call our teleportation. We'll need to figure out another way to get there."

"Where, exactly, is there?"

"Hell. One of them, anyway. I don't know anything about the geography of the place, if I'm honest."