Tanda moaned on Aahz’s lap and tried to sit up.
“Take it easy,” Aahz said. “You got a nasty bump on the head.”
“I can feel that,” Tanda said. Then she looked around and smiled at me. “Good to see you made it as well.”
“I’ll tell you in the morning if I made it,” I said as more memories flooded back in.
She laughed and then clutched her head from the pain.
“I told you to go slow,” Aahz said.
“Well,” Tanda said after a moment. “Did we succeed?”
“I don’t know,” Aahz said. “Skeeve, did we succeed?”
It took me a moment of sitting there with my back against the wall and the cloth burning in my hand to understand what he wanted me to do. Then it dawned on me. Look to see if the energy flow to the Bovine spell had stopped.
I could do that. Or at least I thought I could do that. I opened up my mind, searching for the blue energy stream that had filled this room just a short time ago. Nothing. The side stream and the main stream were now gone completely. The room was as empty energy-wise as it was furniture-wise.
“Oh, yeah,” I said. “We succeeded. Maybe a little too well.”
“All gone?” Tanda asked, not moving her head.
“All gone, main stream and all.”
“Well, that’s going to be interesting,” Aahz said.
The cloth was starting to get close to burning my fingers, so I scooted slowly over on the floor to where the torch lay and lit it. Then I held it up and looked around. On the other side of the room, where I was fairly sure there hadn’t been a door before, was now an open archway. A breeze blew in from the archway, through the room, and into the tunnel we had come out of.