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"I was going to," Remy said defensively. "Then no one would tell me where to find a Genie lamp or a Resurrect-O-Nomitron, so I had to hit the books and find my own way."

"You didn't take that as a sign from the universe that it was a bad idea?"

"Well, I promised her I would do it-"

"So you were being a good, loyal friend keeping her promise," Bronwen said, trying to hold back a laugh.

Remy rolled her eyes. "Perhaps I had some additional motives about wanting to experiment with demon magic."

Bronwen shook her head. "I don't know what to tell you, Remy."

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"Being without magic sucks!" Remy declared as soon as she sat down in the couch.

Bronwen pressed her lips together tight to prevent herself from saying "have you considered it's your own fault?" and instead said: "I can imagine." She looked at the clock nervously. How was it still so early? Elowen wouldn't be home until afternoon to take over Remysitting duty, so she'd need to tolerate her for a while longer.

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"What? Why are you looking at me like that?" Remy questioned.

"They say we vampires are dead inside," Bronwen said. "I'm starting to wonder if it's not the witches who are."

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Remy got out of the couch and started pacing around the living room. "This isn't forever," she said, almost to convince herself more than to convince Bronwen. "They'll figure out how to stop Cain from screaming in my head, then mother will stop punishing me and I can get all my magic stuff back."

"How good of you to be optimistic in these trying times," Bronwen said, trying not to sound sarcastic. "Are you equally certain that Cain's painful half-existence will be resolved?"

Remy didn't seem to hear her. "She has been talking about getting me back into a magical school, so she can't be planning to have me away from my stuff for that much longer."

Bronwen shrugged. She was homeschooled due to her condition. Elowen had spoken about their previous magical school as if it were paradise, until Remy got kicked out and Edana made Adam and Elowen switch to a non-magical school too.

"Do you think she'd send me... back?" Remy asked. "Back to Shadowvale?"

Bronwen stared. "After you tricked that boy into carving his eye out?" she asked.

"I didn't trick him," Remy said defensively. "I merely-"

Bronwen shook her head. "If Edana sends you back, she has lost her mind," she stated. "Watcher, Remy, don't you have any conscience?"

"He still has his other eye," Remy mumbled.

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Bronwen sat down next to Remy on the couch. She didn't practice witch magic herself, nor was she sure if she even had it in her blood, so her opnion would matter little to Remy. However, their half-sister Elowen had rumianted over the situation and voiced many of her thoughts and feelings of it aloud, albeit with not particularly polite words.

"Perhaps you should have resurrected him using a traditional method," Bronwen said.

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Remy seemed to sense the lack of empathy from her step-sister, because she changed tactic. "It's like drowning in a world drained of color," she said in a sorrowful voice. "A hollow ache that no mortal remedy can fill."