The return of Terry and a still sullen Duke - still thinking about the possibility of "cheating" it - was met by Jess running to greet them and hugging Duke, saying, "We found out who made the Lots!" Duke immediately brightened up, and ran with Terry and Jess to meet with Sarah. It was her that found the site for a thing called "The Magic Shoppe". The place was supposedly a hub for magical artifacts, which Jess had not initially believed - until she realized she was a 12 year old now because of magical lots. The guy in charge of the place, some old guy named Maerlyn (similarities in name to Merlin being "wholly coincidental), had been in contact with them over an online communication service devoted to items sold at the place.
He was utterly apologetic about what happened to them, and advised that they free themselves of its effects by giving the Lots freely to someone else, while he worked to return them to their proper ages. Others involved in transformative magic would leave the victims in such sorry states, but Maerlyn was a wizard in the modern world, and he knew such hubris inevitably returned as foul karma.
Terry listened to the whole of the explanation and wondered; who in the world could he give these damned things to? He didn't want any further regression mental or physical to happen to him or his friends, so it had to be done soon. He looked outside and saw an older man and a younger woman returning to the next home over from Jess' home. "Hey Jess..."
"That's Eric and Judy Landon. Eric is a veteran, fought in several wars. Judy's his wife..." Everyone stared at her for a moment. 50 or 60 some year old man and a 30 year old woman? "...She's his second wife. His first passed away. Everybody assumes Judy is a gold digger or something, but she's actually really nice. They live with their adult son Jeff, and Jeff's son and daughter."
Much as Terry hated the idea of handing the Lots off to those people, he really had no choice immediately, and with his mind as it was, he chose. He took up the Lots very carefully and went outside, walking over to the door and freely giving the Lots to the neighbors on their doorstep.
As soon as he walked back inside Jess' place, the fog over his mind started to lift. It was like the immaturity of it all was leaving! Even as he came back inside, he was feeling like at least the mental if not the physical effects were removed by and large. By and large meaning he was still feeling impulsive, energetic and emotional. Just with his older mind mostly returned to him.