By two in the morning all of the remaining guests had gone back to their homes. Salem staggered out of the castle; leaning on pandora for balance. 

  Then Magellan said goodbye to both of the witches, exiting though the back of the castle. He needed to see if the forest had been cleared out. He walked through the forest and just beyond the caves; standing still for a moment. Using his own magical abilities, sensing not a dark being anywhere near there. 

"Good, the half-wit demon did as he wasd told." Magellan thought as he headed off to his own lair. 

                   The empress sat there with her wine goblet, sipping it slowly. Wanting to get back to her sanctuary but she couldn't do it. Exaustion and the booze began to catch up to her. Fighting it for another ten minutes, and slowly she stood up. Walking back through the main hall and to the stairs, slow and steadily up the marble stair-case, holding the wall until reaching the door knob of her bed chamber, slowy she opened it.

     So happy to see her own bed again she almost wanted to cry. Shaking it off she crawled into the bed and under the huge warm covers for the night. It took mere seconds for her to finally have a comfortable deep slumber.