Torbant Mahl and The Crimson Cauldron Torbant has taken his family to the safest place on Earth - Mount Penglai, China. Mags has to go through the rebirth ritual - a journey that she has to make utterly alone. Her enemies are watching - Athol - the Vampire Snatchers - the Storm-Horseman and the prince of darkness himself - Prince Vlad Dracula. It's a ritual that she has to go through to ward off danger, to ensure that she shall be fully protected. Time is against her. The success of the ritual rests both on her and her father. He has to construct the crimson cauldron from the materials and ingredients that he himself has to gather and Mags has to build her own funeral pyre within that cauldron. It is a process the utterly terrifies her. Excerpt from - Torbant Mahl and The Crimson Cauldron. The fire burned fierce for several minutes then began to die down, slowly at first then gaining speed until the fire was gone almost all together. Quickly the fire was out and nothing remained standing . . . . . . All that remained was a cauldron full of smoldering ashes, with glowing embers until they too went out. Thin smoke rose from the ashes as the last of the embers fought to stay alight until at last they submitted to nature and faded. The death sequence was complete. Sonia turned her head and with red, puffy eyes looked at where her daughter had stood just a few minutes earlier and saw nothing. She bawled uncontrollably. Mags was dead.