Halliwell Manor has been empty for several years. The layer of dust that has accumulated on the furniture is unpleasantly thick. There are cobwebs in every corner, waiting to spring themselves on an unsuspecting visitor. The rooms smell musty, like a waterlogged library. Though the garden shows signs of maintenance, the interior is oppressively lifeless. Without people to fill it, the house has become a shadow of its former self. Underneath all of that, the place is the same as the sisters remember. Halliwell Manor looks like home.
"Alright... do you know enough to tell if it should be just one other warlock or demon?"
"The Book should help. It has most species catalogued, or so they say. It's probably not a warlock if they didn't stab the victims."
"The plan was to marry you in our way. That would turn you into a warlock, and then it would be easy to bring Trix to our side. Fernanda would be the harder sell, but she's always had more ambition than the whitelighters like."
"Revenge for what? Marrying her sister? Felicia would have been the same person. I don't think I'm wrong about Fernanda hating everything about the whitelighters and their stupid system, either."
"Okay, I suppose the change could be subtle enough and if you're sneaky then Trix could be corrupted. I do protest the notion that my contempt for incompetent authority equals corruption to even more contemptible authority. But fair enough."
"I think we disagree on how contemptible it would be. I regret murdering people, but having my inner switch flipped to Good didn't do much else, far as I can tell. It's just the crippling guilt about the murder."
"I always liked you, I just also wanted to break you. It's easier now that I just want one."
"Do you have any idea what they wanted to do with evil us? Or it wasn't anything specific?"
"There's a lot you can do with powerful witches on your side, but mostly they wanted take you away from Good. There was no guarantee we'd get all three, and I think they were less sure of it than I was. If they got just one, it would be enough to break the Power of Three."
"Beyond repair or for this generation?"
Attic, here it is. Presumably with the book of shadows.
"Grand. I can't wait the years of paranoia and thinking about the trade offs of having my children or not."
"Our ancestors managed through many generations. I'm not saying it isn't worrying, but we are at least proof that is doable."
Is the book going to cooperate with giving information about who could have possibly killed the other witches?
"The Halliwells haven't had the Power of Three in a while. It doesn't stay in one family, but it has to be three powerful witches, all related. That usually puts a damper on things, if we have anything to say about it."
"I'm noticing the trend. Huh, if you and Felicia have children are they going to get any extra power from you?"
"If anyone's curious about it, I can clear it up. They won't inherit anything from me. I mean, they'll be guaranteed to be witches, not like if I was just a mortal, but they won't have any link to my side of the family. Warlocks give that up when we become what we are."