The owners anger at the attempted escape of two of his pets quickly turned to delight as he saw he now had Lucy cornered and, better still, Laura had foolishly returned. Now he would have four human animals to sell and the one that could be transformed at will would be the most valuable of all. But before he had time to make a move Laura quickly read out some nonsensical sounding words from a book he hadn't noticed her holding until now. The owner seemed to recognise what she was saying. His joy turned to despair and he made a brief lunge toward her before simply vanishing, as if into thin air.
"That's amazing *arf*" Lucy grinned, wagging her tail in triumph.
"Now you can *croak* make us human again!" Annie beamed with relief.
"Um, it's not quite that simple" Laura replied awkwardly "I have no idea what any of these spells do"
"But you *croak* gave me back my voice?" Annie was confused.
"Someone had handwritten what that one did on the page. Maybe in case your new owner wanted you to talk" Laura explained.
"And making that *ook* jerk dissapear *eek*?" Sophie wondered.
"Just a random spell" Laura shrugged "It could have done anything"
"But the reversal spell must be in there *ook?*" Sophie reasoned.
"Yeah but along with so many others. And I can't just keep trying random spells on you guys".
Annie and Lucy nodded in agreement.
"Try them on me" Sophie volunteered "One of them has to work eventually"
"But I mean that's not fair, I..."
"Look, while you were all *ook* fighting off that jerk I was stuck here because I got hungry. It's my turn to *eek* take one for the team" Sophie was being unusually assertive.
"But.."
"Just do it *eek*" Sophie smiled, trying to disguise her fear "before I change my mind"
Seeing no better option Laura reluctantly flicked to the first page in the book, pointed at her friend and nervously began the incantation.