A few seconds went by with Paige, Pru, Xan and Julia looking around the room for tell-tale signs of a cast spell. "These things really take time, don't they?" Xan quipped.

"Hm. Let me see..." Paige's eyes settled on the can Julia had brought resting on the coffee table. "Can," called Paige, with the container failing to orb to her. "Guess it worked. You try."

"Ohhkay. Can," said Pru, with the aluminum cylinder disappearing from the table and reappearing in her hands. "Whoa," she exclaimed, dropping the half-empty can.

"Hey! I wasn't done with that," whined Julia, picking it up from the spillage and tossing the now empty can in the bin.

"That's great! But we have to concentrate on orbing yourself," Paige explained. "Go there," she directed, pointing to the other side of the room.

Xan and Julia watched as their sister followed their aunt's instruction. "No what?" asked Pru expectantly as she stood opposite Paige.

"Close your eyes and think of going here beside me."

Shrugging, Pru did as she was told. A moment went by as they watched the eldest Madison's endeavor at orbing. After what seemed like a full minute, Pru opened one eye and seeing that she had not moved at all, opened both, huffed and eyed her aunt suspiciously. "This isn't working."

"Well, it *did* take me more than a day to perfect my orbing," Paige noted, "but technically since you have my power and since I already learned how to orb, you should know how to orb too. You just have to... relearn it. Maybe if someone scared you-"

"*Scared* me?" snapped Pru, when the door suddenly opened and, in a loud gasp and swirling blue-white lights, she disappeared into thin air.

"Everything all right?" asked the redheaded nurse who peeked through the door.

"Yeah-everything's-all-right-bye," rushed Julia as she pushed the nurse out back into the hall and closed the room door. "Whew."

"Where'd she go?" queried Xan just as the blue-white lights began to appear and gather beside his aunt's hospital bed.

"Wow" was Pru's first word upon reforming beside her Aunt Paige. Taking a deep breath she gave her aunt a wide grin. "Wow."

"'Wow' yourself," chirped Paige, returning the smile with her own. "Hey, we don't have a lot of time, so this is what you do. You know how to orb yourself, but you have to orb Xan and Julia with you when you got to Drew. When you're there, find a way to distract the demons-"

"Wait, *demons*?" Xan cut in. "There's more than one?!"

"Uh, we're not completely sure. I mean, there could just be two or maybeee... five? I don't know, but-"

"Five?!"

"Listen, when you distract the demons, set Drew free and orb back here, I'd have written a spell to vanquish whatever evil comes back here. Thing is, you have to do this right here, right now. So Xan, Julia, hold your sister's hands. And the three of you concentrate on going to where your brother is."

The three Madison siblings followed their aunt's words. With hopes high and fingers interlaced, they brought to their minds the thought of saving their brother. Paige heart ached for her nieces and nephews as she watched their shapes began to dissipate into periwinkle orbs.

"Good luck," she called out, knowing that her voice would fall on dematerialized ears.

The door to Paige's hospital room was again pushed ajar, as the same copper- haired nurse poked her head through. "Are you sure everything's okay?" she asked, before her eyes widened and her brow creased upon noticing the near- emptiness of the room and catching Paige's smile and shrug.