How It All Goes Down
Aunt Kitty to the Rescue
- Carter takes over narrating, telling us that he's seen pictures of the Set animal before, but they don't really do it justice. The creature was horse-sized with a reptilian tail. It has rabbit-like ears, a snout like an anteater, glowing red eyes, and sharp teeth.
- The creature starts to climb up the building's walls, so Bast breaks a window and tells Carter and Sadie to fly away.
- Sadie, however, is frightened to become a bird again, worried she'll get stuck in that shape.
- Bast leaps out of the building, lands softly (since she's a cat), and draws the Set animal away from them.
- Carter and Sadie turn into birds and glide to the airport. On top of a parking structure, Carter turns back into himself while Sadie… doesn't. She's freaking out and flapping her wings, and Carter tries to keep her calm.
- Carter starts talking to Sadie like he would to a scared animal, but then he finds himself telling her all about his life with their father: their various travels, from the funny to the embarrassing.
- It seems like Sadie's listening and calming down, but she's still a bird. So Carter uses the leather bag their father's magic box was in as a gauntlet in order to let Sadie perch on his arm.
- A policeman stops Carter. Aware that he looks strange, Carter is polite, saying that he has tickets. But Bast actually has their tickets, so the policeman asks Carter to come with him.
- Right then, Bast shows up in expensive-looking clothes. After "Aunt Kitty" convinces the policeman that they're legit, she steers Carter into the terminal, saying they only have a few minutes before the Set animal shows up.
- As they proceed toward security, Bast advises Carter to stow his stuff in the Duat, since magicians can access parts of the Duat for both travel and storage.
- Carter imagines a locker with the combination 13/32/33 (those are retired Lakers numbers) and puts his father's magic box inside. The box disappears from sight in the mortal world.
- However, when he asks Bast if she's sure that he can get it back, she says no. And on they go.