"Oh, all right. I guess we do work together pretty well." She'd realized months ago (to her dismay, at first!) that she seemed to resonate better with him than anyone else. Still, it wasn't something she admitted out loud that often.

"But why the snakes? That seems more like when I got turned into my Book of Shadows. Unless there's something you haven't mentioned about snakes back home?"

Together, the snakes grasped the soul with their fangs and returned to the pair in the boat, dropping the glowing sphere onto the spellbook's pages before vanishing in a flash of light.