Aurora choked back another sob as her Accio charm did absolutely NOTHING to get her to her brother. She kept trying to remind herself to breathe, that this was just a challenge and Chad wasn't REALLY in trouble, but the irrational part of her brain was being so LOUD right now. It kept overriding the reasonable part of her brain, which was almost ALWAYS in control, and it was making her sick and disoriented as well as completely frazzled.

You can do this, you can DO this, Chad isn't in any actual danger here...

Wait. She realized that she was gripping the bars of the cage - and her long, talon like fingernails were piercing whatever magical barrier was around the cage. Was...was it really that simple? She rubbed her nose and then took her right hand and reached in through the cage.

"Chad! I'm here Chad!" she cried, hand reaching open wide to try and grab whatever it was in his hand...