Down at the slave auction, Keith introduces Raige and her corpse to the assembled demonic throng, and announces his intention to auction her soul and her body separately. A Grimlock opens the bidding at fifteen powers. It quickly ratchets up to around forty or so until Piper and Phoebe swirl in to bring things to a halt. The Grimlock offers one hundred powers "for all three." "Sold!" Piper cries. "To the dead Grimlock!" She unleashes her Hands Of Discontent, and the Grimlock's pasty ass is fiery history. A leather-clad demonette with New Jersey mall hair tosses a Flaming Ball Of Death at the Feebs. Phoebe's Fucking Backup Band is mute, but we're to believe she empathically channels the demonette's powers to redirect the FBOD into the demonette's own stomach. The demonette explodes. The remaining buyers flee, with Piper picking off one or two of them with a few casual flicks of her wrist. Raige orders her to blow up Keith's vault, which Piper does. As the contracts burn, Raige's ghost glows yellow and reenters her body. "Cut it a little close," she grumps when her reconstituted self rises to cross to her sisters. "What the hell is going on?" Piper demands. "Bitch later," Raige retorts. "Vanquish now!" Phoebe and Piper turn to hurl their vanquishing vials at Keith's feet. He erupts in a veil of flame and quickly dissolves into a Keith-shaped cloud of dust that presently drifts off in the refreshing Underworld breeze. Piper turns back to Raige. "Now can I bitch?" Heh. Raige hurriedly explains that she knew that "no matter how pissed off" Piper and Phoebe were, they'd still come to save her because of the sisterly bond. Piper and Phoebe glance at each other all, "Next time, we let her fucking insubordinate ass rot."













Comments