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Come on.

Mrs. Zimmerman?

Uh, I'm sorry, dear?

What are you doing?

I'm just trying...

Nothing.

Wait.

Isaac and Uncle Jonathan used to perform together?

They did everything together.

They were best friends.

They were?

Once.

Isaac was an orphan, and Jonathan a runaway.

Neither of them had family.

All they had was magic.

And each other.

Then Isaac went away to war.

He was fighting in Germany, when he went M.I.A.

Months passed. Then, suddenly, Isaac came back home.

But it wasn't the same Isaac.

He was different.

And angry.

And more powerful than any warlock had the right to be.

How?

What happened to him?

We don't know.

All he said was he was lost in the Black Forest.

Now, that is a very old place with very old magic.

It's where the Brothers Grimm wrote their histories.

You mean their fairy tales.

Now, we think that Isaac met a dark warlock in those woods,

a teacher who gave him some terrifying, forbidden books.

One of which is so dangerous that your uncle keeps it locked up in his cabinet.

Then Isaac abandoned poor Jonathan.

No explanation.

And he found himself a witch, Selena.

So spiteful and mean, he married her.

And they locked themselves away in the house.

Until one night last year...

Isaac performed a blood magic ritual that killed him.

What was the ritual for?

To make a key. A clock key.

Of human bone.

We think his wife's bones.

We think Isaac killed Selena to make it.

Uncle Jonathan said that you were a really good witch -- even better than him.

I was.

Once.

My magic was the toast of Paris.

You should have seen me before the war.

I melted Salvador Dalí's watch one time, right off his wrist.

Then why can't you help us?

You know how magic comes from the inside?

Well... I got hurt one time.

Pretty badly.

And even though my outsides got better, my insides never did.

And so now, every time I try to work any real magic,

it just comes out... broken.

Now...

There's very few problems in the world

that can't at least be helped by a good chocolate chip cookie.

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