Sadde walks in and grabs a couple of his own tomes, as well as the three he checked out for Theo, and looks at the other boy with a raised eyebrow. "Of course it is, do you think it's decorative?"

Willow looks around for something until she finds one half-finished cloth amulet and some amulet-making tools (needle and thread and such). She takes them.

"What's it even used for?"

Willow looks at him.

"...magic. This is what spells are made of. Some spells. Not all of them."

... Well of course it's used for magic, but. That's not what he meant.

Sigh. "Right."

"If you want I can set a spell up, here."

"What sorts of things can you do?"

"Well, small stuff I don't need ingredients, like," and he makes a ball of light on his palm, "or light teekay. That spell I used on the vampire the other day I had to prepare. Actually I should probably prepare another one of those..."

Willow was playing with her amulet but upon hearing that she looks up and asks, "Ooh, can I help?"

"Sure."

"How does the spell work? I don't really remember it too well."

"Well what you saw was me invoking a goddess to smite a vampire, but there's a lot of behind-the-scenes. And three well-coordinated pairs of hands will help, you'll find the holy items over there," he tells Theo, pointing to a corner with a couple of shelves, "can you grab one of the vials with holy water, the crucifix ladle, and the Communion bread? And Willow—"

"The sage, the crystals, and the diamond, I know."

So Theo goes to the corner and gets the stuff, then brings it back to Sadde. "Here you are."

"Thanks," he says, putting the objects on a small table by the cauldron and resuming his process of dropping various weird powders into it. "There's a hose in the bathroom, can you connect it to the faucet close to the floor and bring the other end here?" He grabs incense and matches.

... "Sure." A hose in the bathroom. Of course?

He goes to attach the hose, and presuming all goes well, brings the other end back.

Willow's holding the sage and arraying the crystals in order on the little table by the cauldron.

Sadde takes the other end of the hose. "Can you open the faucet? And close it when I call." He points it into the cauldron. "Don't open it too much, I'll tell you when it's good."

"Okay."

So off he goes to do that. Such a good little helper.

And eventually Sadde tells him to stop, and asks him to bring the rest of the hose back to the bathroom and close the door when he walks back in.

Sooo he does that.

Is this the fun part?

It is!

Sadde lights the incense up and starts chanting, "Goddess Hecate, hear my plea."

Willow uses some of the heat of the incense to burn the tips of the sage she's holding, and starts walking in counterclockwise circles around the cauldron with it.

Theo has no idea what to do! So he just stands here, trying not to get in anyone's way.