Blackfeather Woods Hocus Pocus

Damien watched impatiently as his sister instructed Kove on what to do during the ritual. The Inuit was diligent, he had always been such and Damien appreciated the gesture and his loyalty, but they were wasting precious time that he could be using to talk to his mother. The dark prince frowned, feeling anxious when his sister took the herbs and started saying the spell. He couldn't make out the words, but he could tell he was asking Sithis permission to enter his reign.

She was in, the spell and the herbs had taken, and Potema was dancing in lost thoughts. At that point Damien did not know if she had successfully entered the void, if Sithis had allowed it, but he had no doubts about the reality of all unlike his brother and sister.

At first, all Potema did was mumble nonsense, then shrieked, putting Damien's guard hairs on end. He glanced at Kove, wondering whether this was normal. His witch sister started breathing heavily, but Damien made no move.

'Mom?' said the witch, and Damien's ears pricked up. He almost missed Kendra rushing forward, getting dangerously close to Potema, she was going to pull her out and he could not let that happen, not at that point. The shadow jumped forward too, catching up with the girl and tackling her aggressively to prevent her from breaking the spell. He looked around imperiously and growled, "No one touches her!" before placing himself right in front of the witch. "Mother?" he barked desperately, trying to find her in Potema's eye. "Mother can you hear me?" he tried again, this time yelling the words at his sister's blank stare, but there was no response. And as soon as it began, it ended.

Potema blinked, and her eye seemed to focus again. "No!" growled Damien at her, but there was nothing he could do. His sister looked around confused, and then mumbled something under her breath that Damien didn't hear. "What was that? What did she tell you!?" he asked desperately, "Mother! What did she say!?" he asked, anger quickening inside his skull and spilling out of his eyes.

EDIT: tagging so we can finish this thread! Maybe one more round would be enough?
@Potema @Kendra @Cicero