Lucas wants to leave the circus they traveled with on the way to Oz when knight Eamonn's Wizard guards are noticed, Dorothy insists to brave them, but he snatches her away just in time to hear their mission is to kill her. Realizing he can't be expected to help, they turn to the late witch's castle, where a tornado indicates the weather is out of control without her. The magical hand jewels she confiscated convince the dark guardian Sullivan she's the apprenticed successor. Keeping up the pretense, Lucas is disarmed and she must guess the ritual, but it only earns her a short tornado-carried trip to her late mother Karen's corpse and back, the weather remains out of control, they resolve to seek the wizard anyway. In Oz, the wizard finds his novice counselor witch Anna smarter then the rest, yet jails her while testing her predictions concerning the arrival of the Beast of Always. Jack finds desperate Tip a herbal healer, requesting to duplicate his last medicine, but they're told it's not, rather forbidden magic to assume a boyish appearance. Desperate to be a girl for and since ever, Tip semi-accidentally causes Jack to make a seemingly fatal fall.
—KGF Vissers