Manor. Aftermath. Out on the sun porch, Piper snits, "Barbas? You couldn't have brought back Andras or Shax or somebody we could actually vanquish?" Contrivance passes Continuity a Mai Tai and asks him if he's into threeways. Continuity flings the Mai Tai into Contrivance's face and storms out of the Manor. Meanwhile, the Dolt applies the tingly touch to the numerous lacerations on Cole's face. The gashes presently vanish, and Cole awakens to warn the ladies about Barbas. Piper coolly informs him that they're quite familiar with this particular Demon Of The Week before she and Phoebe go back to shrieking at Raige for her stupidity. I'm attributing Piper's behavior to the Words Of Dissent Barbas has been whispering into her ears over the last few days, and so will tolerate it for the time being. However, Phoebe's pulled this strident blame-casting shit before, so I'll just continue hating her, if that's all right with everyone. Raige repeatedly apologizes and offers to abuse the Book of Shadows as penance before Cole steps in to announce that, should Barbas use the purloined Wicked Waste Land Mojo to reorganize the Underworld and become the new Source, he'll become unstoppable. No, Cole. Barbas won't become the unstoppable new Source, because Barbas would need The Grimoire to do so, and The Grimoire is buried somewhere in the "west Andes." Remember? I'd suggest that you rough up Contrivance for driving Continuity from the Manor with that repellent proposition, but I think Contrivance would probably enjoy that.













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