Just before moonrise that evening, there had been a knock upon her castle doors. The empress looked up from her infamous spell-book and listened as one of the servants answered the knocking.  She just waited a couple of minutes for the known tapping on her office door.

"Come in." 

Amberosia slowly opened the door.

"Someones here miss."  She spoke softly.

"Salem?" 

"Yes miss, his mate too." She answered the mistress.

"Send them in. Bring coffee."  She instructed the girl.

"Of course, miss." She nodded then scurried out of the room to do as she was told.

                               The empress sat there in her favorite chair of the magical office, worrying over the current dilemma with the vampires.  As prepared as possible, all that could be done is hope things would work out for all of them. 

There was a slight chance that Spencer and Magellan had made it back, but her intuition told her a different story. As soon as she had finished that thought, Amberosia escorted her two visitors in along with the big pot of coffee and mugs. 

"Thank you dear, that's all we need."  The empress dismissed the servant girl. 

Amberosia nodded and quickly left the office. 

            "Salem, Pandora come sit." She greeted them. 

They nodded to her one at a time and took two seats across from her. 

The empress pored coffee for the three of them and waited a moment, letting her friends get comfortable. 

"Now tell me has there been any word from your father or his friend? The empress asked them.

"No there hasn't and I'm worried about them both." Pandora interjected.

"I'm sure I would be too." She replied and after a long pause continued.

"I'll get the multidimensional stones ready."  She offered.

"How will those help?" Pandora asked unfamiliar with the method of magic.

"If you know how to use them, you can see into any dimension you wish."  She explained, taking a big gulp of the sorceress brew. Then getting up and walking to her pantry of magic items brought the stones back and arranged them on her desk. 

"Give it a good few minutes and I'll see whatever I can, but remember the visions aren't always clear." She explained to them as she got started.