Gregory got up and made his way to the bear, before pausing at it.

"One moment." he said.

"Desiree!?" he called into the apartment.

"It would be rude of me to just leave without saying goodbye." he told Madison.

"...and I'm not sure if she's actually home or not." he then admitted.

"Admittedly, I've been distracted." he said. And she knew he meant from worrying about HER.

Gregory then sighed heavily.

"Right." he said.

"Obviously I cannot delay this, as this is inevitable, and needed." he told her, before getting an idea.

"One second." he then said, before walking out of view.

She heard some shuffling, then silence, and then he came back.

"Best I can do is a note. Left it on her bed." he informed Madison.

He then sighed once more, before reaching out and grabbing the bear... causing his soul to be ripped from his body, and his body to dissipate into thin air, leaving nothing behind.

Gregory took a moment to get used to being what he used to be, closing his eyes and calling for his scythe, the weapon appearing in his hand. He looked at it, listening to what Madison had to say, before pausing and looking at her at the end.

"Eh?" he muttered.

"A horrible woman?" he asked.

"Why? What's going on?" he asked her, before narrowing his eyes.

"...because I can see you are guilt-ridden..."

"...." Gregory was silent, before narrowing his eyes.

"I see." he said.

"Hm." he muttered, looking upwards, and pondering something. Or, rather, someONE.

- - -

Ash just sighed heavily as he spread the scrying equipment out on the desk. He readied everything, and made sure the crystal would hone in on Kelly. Though he was sure it would fail. Again.

Like it always did.

"Time for the daily failure." he muttered to himself, as he started letting the crystal dangle from the thread, and spun it lightly around the map... until it stopped dead on a location.

"....!" he was stunned silent for a moment, his mouth dry and his voice gone for a moment.

"...HEY!" he then shouted as loudly as he could into the house.

"HEY! LIVINGROOM! RIGHT THE FUCK NOW!"

Ash had accidentally knocked the crystal away, but quickly got ready again.

"W-watch this!" he told her.

He then shakily held the crystal by the thread for a few seconds, before forcibly calming himself down, and starting the spinning again.

It spun for what seemed like forever to him, mostly because he was concerned that he'd imagined that before, or it had been a fluke... before the crystal slammed down onto the map. In the exact same location as before.

"It did it again!" he declared. "Same spot as a few seconds ago!" he told Ashleigh.

Ash looked at it again, narrowing his eyes.

"...yeah. Stonehenge." he said.

"..." he was then silent for a moment, as things started to piece themselves together in his mind.

"Wait..." he mumbled.

"Ashleigh, we..." he started to say, but paused, thinking about it once more.

"Let's make this easy." he said. "You look like you've had a lifetime's worth of epiphanies, and then some." he commented.

"Care to share them?"

"..." Ash was silent for a long moment after hearing that.

"We need to go there." he said.

"Kelly's there. That means Evan and Sammy are there, too." he reasoned.

"We have to mount an invasion, and rescue them!" he declared.

'And we need to do it NOW!"

"...damn it." Ash cursed.

"You're right." he admitted.

"We need to act sooner, rather than later." he insisted.

"...wait." he then mumbled.

"Wait, wait wait..." he said on repeat.

"Her... the contract... does that mean it's voided?" he asked.

"And does that mean the celestial realm is no longer blocked out?"

"Clearly." Ash responded.

"...but we can ponder the 'how' and 'why' later." he said.

"We need to let the right people know about this." he told her. "Which is to say, we need people that can effectively storm her location with minimal fear of her fighting back." he clarified.

"...odds are the celestial realm, and maybe the infernal realm, will have people willing to do do." he suggested.

"But what are your thoughts on this?" he asked.

"You have any sort of ideas for how to go about this?"

Ash nodded in response.

"Right." he said.

"I'll contact her." he told her, before pausing.

"...right now, actually." he added.

He then leaned back in the chair he had been sitting in closed his eyes, and crossed his arms over his chest. While it looked like he wasn't doing anything, Ashleigh knew what he was doing. She knew who and what he was, so he had nothing to hide from her.

'Please... please come to my home. Living room. I have information that you NEED to know, if you don't already know it.' he sent to Emelie, using the special mental channel that only he and his fellow Harmony members had access to.