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.
"I don't know, I could see you as young Wiccan ladies. Mind if I come watch a ritual?"
Ding! They've arrived. Lan walks into the apartment with police tape blocking the door.
Crawling may be undignified, but the investigation calls for it.
Too bad she does not know how to levitate (yet).
Also, Lan is here and shouldn't see this sort of thing.
"Knowing you, that was meant to be lewd, but I think you should've set up the lewdness more beforehand for the joke to work."
"Not this again."
Lan's dad exits the bedroom, placing himself between them and the other police officers, who are rushing out to identify the intruders.
"What are you doing here, kid? This is a crime scene."
"No, and if you want to keep your leaving-the-house privileges, you can go straight home."
"Hello, Beatrix. I see you're keeping out of trouble. Fernanda, how are your plans going?"
"My plans have come several major changes since our last meeting, but I would they have overall changed for the better. Is nice seeing you."
Although they haven't been allowed to go further in, the triplets can see the woman's body. She appears to be no different than any other dead woman, and any further details are obscured by the people and the walls between them and her corpse.
Fernanda tries to focus on the sight of the dead woman and... reach for whatever power she can get.
She sees the coroner, examining the body. He pronounces the death as resulting from smoke inhalation from an accidental fire.
"Well, that was a interesting and morbid sight. Lan, do you want to start cracking the 'skyclad' jokes? I can reply with 'I show you mine if you show me yours'."
"I'd never forget that, Trixie."
He runs ahead of them, hoping to avoid her retaliation.
"Okay, so it's not anything positive, it's not anger, it's not sadness...what about fear? Think about something bad happening to me. Do you remember when I showed up here with bruises all over my arm, and I tried to pass it off as a fight gone bad?"