"....so the main reason we called you here is that Cam thought you'd know a bunch about magic, and we have a spell that can probably return a vampire's soul to it, but we don't have someone skilled enough to cast it. And I wanna restore my aunt's soul, because she's a vampire now, but I think I can fix it. And before she was a vampire she was the vampire slayer. Well, a vampire slayer. There's supposed to be only one, but she drowned for a bit when she was fifteen and so there've technically been two for a while. Except right now I guess there's only one. Hi."

"- okay. Uh. I have a tragic magical disability, so my magical prosthesis, Soph, will be along shortly to consult on that. Right now she's topping us off on gas."

"Makes sense."

"We have not previously gone in for restoring vampire souls. You have a way to do that?"

"I'm pretty sure I do? There's at least one previous recorded case of it working, though I dunno where exactly this souled vampire is right now. Uh, Cam does this thing where if you tell him what to make he can make things, including copies of old books that've been burnt or destroyed or whatever, so that's how I was able to get all the information together. It's technically a curse that was created to make this one vampire really miserable about his crimes as this whole vengeance thing, but if you can get vampires their souls back then that's worth trying, right?"

"Seems like it to me. Especially with unlimited ingredients. How much do you need to know for this ritual about the specific vampire and how long does it take to do?"

"I don't think it takes very long? You need to set up a sacred circle and recite an incantation and catch the soul in an Orb of Thesulah, and then you say another incantation to move the soul from the orb to the vampire. You need to specify a target but I don't know how specific you have to be or what happens if you're not specific enough. This thing doesn't seem to have a long history of being, like, used. I can show you all the notes I took on it, though."

"Soph'll look them over. I have a sort of strategic understanding of magic but it just isn't - efficient - for me to study it in more depth."

That must suck real bad.

"Yeah. It sucks real bad."

"...do you want, like, a hug or something?"

"No, but thanks. Cam, I wanna double-check you, whaddaya got."

Cam pulls up pictures on his computer of himself with his parents. He shows her a page of his notes, angled so Zanna can't see. He informs her that he picked up violin after he died and makes her sporfle. He hesitates, and then claims credit for Revelation, not that Zanna has the context to appreciate that.

Zana does not, in fact, have the context to appreciate this. She does feel like it's the sort of thing that Imrainai would approve of, taking your random happenstance and trying to do the very very best you can with it. 

She hugs her knees on one of the hotel room beds and waits for Soph to show up.

Soph shows up while Cam is still in the middle of explaining Revelation. "Hey demon bro," she says.

Hello, the sister I never had.

"And you're Zanna?"

"Yep!"

"Nice to meet you, I'm Soph and I will be your witch this evening, how can I help ya."

"We wanna re-ensoul a vampire."

"Gosh. Never done that one before, not sure where to start..."

"She's got an old book Cam grabbed for her, you're just gonna have to look over the spell and stuff."

"Yeah, I have it all written up. It's supposed to be dangerous if you don't know what you're doing, very powerful magical stuff here, but I think I have the instructions and the incantations right."

"Okay, like, how sure are you of that, because no offense but you look like you're maybe thirteen."

"I'm twelve. You can check my work if you want, I would."