After I filled out the employment form, we spent about an hour putting together an action plan for the following day. Well, technically speaking, I listened and nodded while Wyatt told everyone else what they needed to do, in his signature slightly condescending tone.
Before I left the coven, Wyatt also had me stand in front of the emergency door in Kid City for another half hour, until I got the Aperi Portam spell right. Not that it was all that complicated. Once I pronounced it correctly, the door opened back into the coven. It took ten fails till I got it right, given how Americanized my Latin pronunciation was, after which he made me get it right another ten times in a row, between short bouts of bickering.
I’d also learned that this was one of three access points into the coven—the
