Quilt, Book and Bard Bryna Chalmer

In order to take the kingdoms over properly, Neal instructs Jake and Alex that they must speak to the last vestiges of the Queen through Hildegarde. During the ceremony the Queen destroys the spell book and commands Jake and Alex to take good care of the kingdoms. As soon as the spell book is destroyed Neal goes to see if he is truly free of Hildegarde. When he realizes he is, Neal decides that living in the castle isn't for him, and moves into a small cottage in the town, finishing his painting there.Eventually it comes time for Tory and Jeremy to leave... with the promise to return as soon as possible.
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With King Delphic stuck in the picture, Tory becomes worried about
returning home. While Alex is reluctant to admit that she has to go,
he, Neal, Jake and Seth start speaking seriously about how to take over
the Kingdoms. Though neither Alex nor Jake wish to rule the Kingdoms,
they both know they'll have to do something in order to keep them from
falling apart.
In an attempt to figure out a solution, Tory proposes they look to the spell book.

With everything in the two kingdoms starting to become more
normal, Neal focuses on creating the picture to get Tory and Jeremy
home.Tory, worried that Neal hasn't stepped foot out of Hildegard,
despite being human again, figures out a way for him to feel more
comfortable about the prospect. Taking the spell book, she convinces
Seth and Neal to reverse the spell Norlis did in order to free Alex
from the bracelets which Garten put on him.With the
bracelets off, Neal sees that it might be possible to leave Hildegard
without dying, but an unfortunate side effect of reversing the spell
unlocks all the doors in the castle, allowing the King to escape into
the the picture Neal is working on.

Tory starts to worry about how Jake and Alex are going to take over the
kingdoms, and how she's going to return home. In an effort to get Jake
to stop stonewalling, Seth tells Tory that it might behoove her to see
if the bracelets Alex still has on his wrists work in Hildegarde.
Once they establish that the bracelets don't have any effect in
Hildegarde,  Jake is willing to sit down and consider the idea of
taking the mantle of power over the Delphic Kingdom.

Neal wakes up to find that the spell has been broken. Tory tells him
they defeated King Delphic when she threw the signed piece of parchment
the Queen had taken from Neal into the fire. Norlis ran away after
he killed Garten, and everything is now going to be different.
Surprised to learn all this, Neal tries and finds he can no longer
speak with Hildegard. In an effort to understand what is going on he
starts towards the Kitchens, Tory following close behind.

As Norlis continues to speak the spell, Tory notices the difference in
the room they're standing in. Looking to Seth, she disrupts the spell
by following his directions. During the interruption the spell is
changed.

Norlis goes slightly nuts.