“I tried all the ones I knew as well,” Tanda said, frowning. Since we were all still here, I assumed she had had the same result as Glenda.
“And I saw nothing in any of the books back there to give us any help either,” Aahz said. “In fact, I think it’s worse than we are assuming. I think the spell that keeps all the vampires as cows, and your people under their spell and not killing the cows every month, is tied up with the very spells we are trying to break.”
“If that’s the case,” Harold said, sounding defeated, “to free me, I must release all my people from the spell that has held them for centuries, and free all the vampires to kill them at the same time. I can’t do that.”
“Actually,” Aahz said, smiling, “there might be a way that it would work, if we could shut everything down at once and at an exact time.”
“How?” Harold asked.
“I wouldn’t mind knowing the same thing,” I said.
Tanda laughed with Aahz. “Do it during the middle of the day.”
I frowned and looked at Aahz, who was nodding and laughing at me. Harold was frowning as well.
Glenda was laughing, but not very much.
“All the cows are out in pastures,” Aahz said, his voice taking on the tone he got when I was being so stupid he couldn’t believe I could be that stupid.
“Daylight,” Tanda said. “Vampires?”
“Oh,” Harold said. “Of course. Sunlight kills vampires.”
“Of course,” I said out loud, pretending I had just forgotten, even though I had never known that fact about vampires. Why would I have? Until I came to this stupid dimension, I had never seen or even heard of a vampire. I just figured they had something to do with full moons.