“Look - This is a lot. Between all of this, and what happened with Thomas at the pet store…”
“Yeah, what happened there?” Teddy asked. “I only got a little preview from the leash.”
“Sorry about that by the way.” Jacob uttered.
“It’s fine. I’m not mad.” Teddy lied. “What happened?”
“They started to talk the same. It was like they were zombies but saying the same thing and just coming towards me. They started grabbing me and tried to take off my clothes…It was scary.”
“It always is.” Teddy began. “You might’ve triggered an echo chamber.”
“A what?”
“An echo chamber. The same spell cast on two people at the same time with the same result. If you break the spell on one, you probably will affect them both at this point.” Teddy sighed. “Oh yeah. This is a huge mess.”
“You’re the worst instructor!” Jacob exclaimed.
“I’m a fucking seagull, what did you expect?!” Teddy exclaimed back, throwing up his wings defensively. “Don’t put all this chaos on me!”
“Well it’s gotta go somewhere!” Jacob said. “What do I do?”
“Well- which problem do you want to solve first?”
“None of them!” Jacob exclaimed. “I don’t want to solve any of this! Why can’t the spells just work how they’re supposed to?”
“Oh you stupid boy. Nothing ever works how you expect it to. Nothing at all. This is all a giant mess that you’ve created and now we have to pick up the pieces one at a time.” Teddy chuckled again. “Or not. And we see just how deep this chaos spiral dives.”
“Well what do you propose I do first?”
“Well, you’ve never tried to break one of your spells before. That seems like a good place to start.”
“How does one break a spell?”
“Now that- I wish I could tell you.”
“Teddy!”
“It’s brewcasting! It’s new! It’s unique and exciting and different! Double double toil and whatever else the fuck it is you do! This is your domain. You made a spell and now you either let it continue, or you find a way to break it.”
“The only one I know I could talk to about this was Tic…and he’s…” Jacob sighed. “Well who knows where he is.”
“I know…but he likely didn’t know much about this magic anyway. As I said it’s a rare gift. And being a boy witch already puts you in the minority so this is… complicated.” Teddy huffed.
“Do you know anyone?”
“You’re the first. Perhaps one of the first in decades. I think the only way you could potentially learn more about how to break it is to go to old sources.”
“Old sources?”
“You know…The old magics. Something that has existed since magic was more accepted and available to people. Something that would record the old world ways?”
“You don’t mean…” Jacob said slowly cluing in.
“I do. I suspect I know a place where we can find out a bit more about it. If your boyfriend is actually a Templar, he’d haveresources on magic there. We could read a few of them and figure out how we can break it all.”
“I suspect that’s where it is.” Teddy sighed. “You think Joe would be up to going back there?”
“I’m sure he’ll be able to find some excuse to go back.” Jacob looked at his phone and grunted. “Okay- go to the templar whatever, figure out how to break the spells, come back and save Serena-”
