Sarah found herself in the middle of the three brothers from hell. Victor had pushed her behind him as Alex walked from the flames of his car, brandishing pistols. At first glance, the guns looked inadequate against them until Jeff squeaked,<br/>"Cursed."<br/><br/>She knew the time had come to draw upon the Power of Three. For what ever purpose Victor, Rake and Jeff had been put on Earth,Sarah knew that the trio was  unstoppable when united. For this purpose the brothers had been called to the home that was Victor. For this purpose she had become a part of their unholy trinity. Pressing her back against Victor,  and reaching her fingertips to touch the others, she began to chant one of the most powerful spells in her book.Alex's words struck terror in her heart but she knew that love would replace that fear if she allowed it.<br/><br/>The chant took up physical form as dust began to swirl around them. The wind picked up, creating a freshet that was a tornado.Hair and clothes whipped tightly against their bodies and Sarah's eyes were pulled tight. One by one, the men took on the perfect forms of humanity as Sarah's chant insisted on freedom.The power of three would set them free. She expected Alex to drop dead and for each one to walk away human and free to carry on normal life. Free to love and live and maybe even for her and Victor to have children and a family. Free to break the patterns of the past.<br/><br/>'The power of three will set you free."she commanded from a deep dark place of power within her.<br/><br/>Victor turned to look at her, eyes luminous with love.Jeff, young and carefree, pressed his cheek against her hand and Rake, kind, gentle man was radiant with health and potential, clasped her hand, saying, "Thank you,sister."<br/><br/>The howling of the wind grew greater. Alex's pistols discharge in flame and smoke but the bullets seemed to fly in slow motion, racing toward the hearts of the men she fiercely loved. A roaring like a freight train filled the air and Sarah's field of vision was reduced to the flying granules of dust swirling in  front of her.Above the howling wind, she heard frantic screams and wails of grief.<br/><br/>"The power of three will set you free.Be free, my loves."<br/><br/>The three now normal men rose from the Earth, loosed from gravity, free of the bonds that had kept them tethered to the nightmare of life they had lived since the curse from Alex and his family. Free from generational bondage. A wave of sound and heat circled them with the intensity of a bomb,vaporizing all around her.<br/><br/>The silence was deafening as Sarah raised her head from the ground where the explosion had thrown her.<br/><br/>"Victor?" she called,reaching out her hand, expecting him to pick her up, expecting him to be there for her as he had been her entire life as savior and friend. Silence greeted her. Wiping the grit from her eyes, she looked around at the smoking wreckage of a car and nothing more. "Victor!" she wailed, despair, confusion, hysteria present in her voice, "Victor"<br/><br/>Silence choked her as she pushed herself to her feet. She was lighter with whispy tendrils waving slightly around her body, seeming to replace or maybe it was to enhance her limbs. "Victor?" she pleaded, looking around frantically. She hurried to the line of trees yonder beyond the houses. The light seemed to much to bear. Confusion rang in her head, whirling and sound and fury. "Victor!" she wailed as she ran.<br/><br/>The hunger and thirst for essence coursed through her body, driving her. Terror spread from one end of the slender limbs to the other as she stumbled through the trees.They tried to catch at her body but Sarah drove herself deeper and deeper through the trees.  At the far edge she stopped, hearing the voices of children. A feral smile crossed her face.