"Sure. Let's take a look."

To the attic with them. They find a recipe for an all-purpose vanquishing potion, which supposedly should work on most low-level demons.

Alright, they go about brewing that. Assuming it does not require the souls of forsaken children or anything.

Nope, but it does seem to require ingredients they don’t have.

”Never mind. Me and Felicia will have to protect you guys if we have any problems.”

"Or maybe I will protect all of your asses with actually-capable-of-offense power."

"Maybe. Like I said, I'm hoping it doesn't come to that. He's a useful guy."

"How far and how long until we can meet him?"

"If you're ready, I can take you there now."

They look at each other and then Fernanda speaks. "I think that is as ready we can get without literally waiting for another day."

Theo takes Felicia's hand, and holds the other out to Fernanda.

"All of you need to be touching me."

"Let the records show that he invited us to do it." Squeeze.

Fernanda rolls her eyes. Touch.

A moment passes.

"Damn it. It's not working. I'm gonna need a minute to check if blinking is the only thing I've lost."

He extricates himself from the siblings and starts pacing.

Felicia puts a hand on his back. "Is there anything we can do to help?"

"No, I just need to run through the list."

Theo raises a hand, causing a bolt of lightning to travel through the room, stopping short of doing any damage. After that success, he transforms into a wolf instantly, and transforms back.

"I'm not going to check the venom here, but that looks like everything except blinking."

At their blank looks, he adds, "Blinking is what warlocks call our teleportation. We'll need to figure out another way to get there."

"Where, exactly, is there?"

"Hell. One of them, anyway. I don't know anything about the geography of the place, if I'm honest."

"Okay, let's take another look at the book of shadows."

The Book of Shadows does not obediently flip to a helpful page. They'll need to just turn pages like regular users of books.

The absolute horror of page turning.

(She kinda wants to digitize this thing, but first thing first.)

The Book contains pages and pages of demons, warlocks, spirits, and assorted other horrifying monsters. They are interspersed with recipies for potions, instructions for spells, techniques for scrying, and descriptions of powers.

There are also several entries on families, clans, and secret organizations.

Finally, Felicia finds a page titled "Hell". It describes, in broad strokes, the hierarchy of hell (with The Source of All Evil and the Triad at the top, and warlocks and vampires at the bottom), several important locations, and some historically important residents and factions. There is very little information about how to get there.

"You can use portals to get there, although I don't know anyone who can make them. Otherwise, I say we forget Dawad and try someone more local."

She figures that going to hell is not a common solution to most people's problems. She reads a couple of lines and makes a note to going back to it later.

"Who do you have in mind then?"

"Korbrant. He's not the best choice to report to them, but I'm not dealing with Liam or Hayden."

"Alright, tell us about Korbrant."

"My best guess is Xilvoch demon. I can't be sure, since my employers were pretty reckless with their experiments."