Disclaimer, you know the drill.
When the tea was served Madeline finally began to explain her plan. She started by producing several Wristbands, each with a round crystal in them.
"when traveling I never know what I'm going to run into, or if some crackpot sorcerer, or witch, or whatever is going to attack, so I invented these wristbands, sealed inside the crystal is a transportation spell." Madeline said
"okay?" dorothy asked taking a sip of tea.
There are two things that can activate it, if a spell is shot at you then the residual magical will activate the spell right before it hits you, or by breaking the crystal against a hard surface, like say a table, but the spell is only one-time use, we would each have one shot." Madeline said.
"One shot? That's not bad, we should be able to rescue them." Dorothy said.
"however there is another catch." Madeline said.
"there always is." Dorothy replied.
"If the wristband is struck directly the spell will burn out and you will be trapped." Madeline said.
"I was afraid you'd say that." Dorothy said.
"I have enough for each of us to have one, if we go to the emerald city, you will need to be very careful, you only have one chance, I'll have to reset the transport spell on all of them, which should take about an hour." She said.
"We're perfectly fine with the household duties." The servants said in unison
"I take it that means you're not coming with us?" dorothy asked.
"well that would leave us with five extra wristbands." She said.
"We're happy to do busy work, but risking lives, not even the jester's parents would make us do that." Cecil said.
"alright then, so are we going to try it or not?" Madeline asked.
Once again all eyes fixed on dorothy.
"we can't fight her, at any rate I certainly can't, but if we can get the others, we might be able to start formulating a proper plan." Dorothy said.
"but is that yes or no?" Madeline asked
"Maddie go charge up the wristbands, we'll be waiting down here." dorothy said.
