Once Deacon’s projection faded, we all just stared at Tegan like we were all praying she’d return with the answers we needed. But then she just cursed violently. The vibe in the room grew dark and tense. I glanced around, there wasn’t a whole lot of us left on our feet. Tim sat on the couch as close to Tenn as possible, with Jackson two feet away. All three of them were barely hanging on. And by the way Tegan walked back over and gripped Tenn’s shoulder like he was about to float away, I knew he wasn’t coping too much better than he had been before Tegan returned.

Lennox and Warner sat on the other couch that faced them, but their normally jovial smiles were replaced with grimaces. Mei-Ling and Tai were sitting at the dinner table next to Landreia, Kenneth, and Daniel. None of them spoke. They just stared. Constance paced the pathway between the table and the kitchen while she tugged on her bottom lip. Movement behind her caught my eye, which was when I noticed that Tyce and Dace were sitting on the counters in the kitchen, eating food quietly.

Tegan let out a deep breath. “You’ve all done so well with everything while I was down. I’m proud of you. Especially Frankie with those potions.”

I groaned. “I don’t even know what they all do, but I’m sick of waiting for them to be ready.”

“Valathame told me you’d updated the Book of Shadows, but I haven’t seen all the runes yet. I’ll look.” She held her hand out and the crystal necklace lifted off Tenn and into her open palm. The book opened to the list faster than my eyes tracked. She scanned the pages while nodding. “These are intense. Dammit.”

“Why dammit?” I walked over to her and tried to see what she saw. “What’s wrong?”

“I was really hoping once you got to this point, I’d be able to figure out what each was for, but . . .” she cursed again, “it’s gibberish still, even for me.”

“They are done, right?” I tapped on the page. “We put all the ingredients in and they’re brewing but none of the others have done anything. Yours glowed and did all this magic shit the second we put the Heavenly ingredients in, then I saw the main symbols tell me it was done. None of the others did that.”

“I was afraid you were going to say that,” Tegan grumbled.

Lennox threw her hand up in the air and snapped her fingers. “We’d love for you to jump in and do that thing you do.”

Tegan arched one black eyebrow. “By which you mean everything super-fast?”

“YUP,” Lennox and Warner said at the same time with grins.

I shrugged. “Ya girl Leyka basically said as much.”