Farewell Diana Millay, in her last appearance on DS.
Angelique (as usual) enjoys her gloating over Laura and tells her to choose her enemies more wisely next time.
Edward finally gets it about Laura when Barn warns him not to have any fires going. When Laura says she's leaving, Edward replies with stiff formality, We'll both be better off. She collapses, and Edward takes her to Jamison's room.
Deprived of her scarab (which we never see again), Laura prays to Ra, but only Edward shows up and refuses to have a fire in the room.
Edward has hidden Nora and Jamison in the East Wing, in a room by themselves. [spoiler](The Book of Leviathan is on a table, unaware of its future glory.)[/spoiler] Jamison is still all for going to Ra Mountain, but Nora still doesn't want to leave Collinwood.
Unfortunately Edward finally yields to Laura's pleas and lights a fire. Once she gains control of it, she vanishes before his eyes as he watches in horror. But Barn pleads with Angelique to help. Confident in her ageless beauty, she prays to her dark powers to make Laura unrecognizable to her children.
Meanwhile, Laura has started a fire in the room where the children are hidden. They are terrified as the flames creep closer and closer until they are surrounded by fire.
In Jamison’s room, Angelique continues relentlessly, Now you are in the presence of your greatest enemy. That enemy is time--all the years and centuries and eras you have lived through. I have summoned that enemy to confront you now, and you will appear as you really are.
Having somehow passed through the flames, Laura comes closer to the children. Run into my arms! she calls to them. her. As she appears, still cloaked and hooded, with her back to us, the children stare at her, horrified. You’re not our mother! they scream as they back away from the woman who has become a stranger to them. Laura’s face is haggard and aged, but she doesn’t realize what has happened until she looks down--at her withered, clawlike hands. The next moment, she screams in despair as a final burst of flames (which bounce up from the bottom of the screen) consumes her utterly (in Diana Millay’s positively last appearance on the show)....
