[Anger swirls with frustration and now some measure of guilt. This really hadn't been meant to affect Royce or Emily. Certainly not to the level it seems to have. But they'd found out after so little time! How could it be that bad? Still, he can imagine the heart-stopping moments he's had in Between, losing someone, even when they sometimes reappeared. That had been to nonexistence, though, not to a home where Alfie might like to be.

It seems so unfair to him. Why can't Royce just appreciate what a clever punishment it was and move on when no one was really hurt or lost? Monty knows better than to voice those selfish resentments. He takes a few steadying breaths of his own.]

I did not think it through to that point. I'm sorry. All I thought was that it was a spell that would last three days and be finished. Hopefully with Mr. Solomons the wiser for it. If you would ask me to take no action when he wrongs someone I love, then I must look to you to provide adequate punishment, in that event. Would you be able to provide it? Just as you might ask the same of me for one of my dearest.