Crocker's eyes opened. Fires of fury that had been concealed now opened and he gave a roar. Charging at Cosmo, he ripped his gun from the sand where it lay and pointed it at Cosmo.
He didn't wait for anything dramatic. He fired and the shot rang out and echoed in the desert, whereas the gentle thud that his body made as it fell to the ground was as quiet as the scrape of steel on ice.
He struggled to get up, rather than curling up in a ball to prevent further pain, as Wanda had done. Timmy watched from his prison as his fairy godfather fell to the ground without even any help from Crocker.
Timmy hammered on his prison walls but they were powerful magical barriers. Cosmo seemed to have fainted but Wanda was close, so close that if the bubble hadn't been there Timmy could have stretched out and touched her.
"Wanda" he whispered gently. She stirred and tried to open her eyes but seemed as if all the life had been sucked from her. Timmy tried again, and she lifted her head and tried to focus on him. She seemed to see into his head to what he was thinking, and using the last of her magic, the last of her power, the last of her life...
She made what seemed like her final poof.
Then she collapsed and seemed to stop breathing.