Macy is the only powerful one, and she's Over It! More than being the only one who can actually fight a demon head-on, it is the responsibility of defending witches— and the exhaustion she is tired of carrying mostly by herself. To help her, Harry is there, but his powers were not exactly reliable. And he wouldn't be much better in a fight than Maggie or Mel, as far as I know.
Macy didn't get to sleep because she feels she's the only one in distress that can respond to a witch. She also avoids Not-Harry, who seems to stay in Dreamland for her; and Harry feels bad that her tormentor has his face. Weeps. * But Macy's wrong, she's the only strong one. Yet rescuing any single witch is not on her, and perhaps her sisters ought to vocalize it to her before she runs ragged.
When Macy and Harry return from yet another mission, she snaps at Mel for not having deciphered the Book of Elders (BOE henceforth). Mel says, "bet, you do it then" (paraphrase) and Macy says — like a Black mom who has asked for help exactly zero times — "fine, I'm already doing everything else around here, why not" (exact quote). But when she goes to to touch the book, it repels her and she's thrown across the room. Her demon magic doesn't work in the command center and she can't touch the BOE.
In contrast to everything else that the Charmed Ones are currently dealing with, the keycards they need to reach the Safe Space command center are being removed because things have gone missing— they stole the stuff from them— and management is cracking down. Maggie, who just started to work there as a host just days ago, has the brilliant plan to apply for an assistant manager and she (and her sisters) can do it.
Maggie discovers that Jordan (first-aid-kit cutie) is going after the same position. She basically asks him not to apply because she needs this. The entitlement jumped out! He doesn't go for that at all. Later, when they're waiting to be interviewed, she gets a peek at his resumé and discovers very quickly how much more qualified he is. Knowing full well that she would not be the better candidate, she brought a little spell to her interview. Needless to say, she got the job.
Later, Maggie sees Jordan putting up an "everything must go" sign at his boxing gym. When she asks why, he says he needed the position to afford rent cause Safe Space isn't cheap, (whew I can imagine). So now she feels extra guilty — as she should — and is probably work shopping some way to help Jordan since she did steal his job.
Meanwhile, Mel and Harry decipher a page in the book that refers to a Sentinel and decide they need to drink some magical tea and meditate for five hours while their spirits travel to the astral plane. They ask Katrina (magic shop bae) to meditate with them cause they need an anchor. When they go on their journey, they meet the Sentinel of the BOE who returns their powers to them, easy peasy lemon squeezy.
When they return with their powers, Kat puts the moves on Mel. But then sis gets attacked by worms who begin crawling all over her :shivers: Mel and Harry realize this is the cost for them having their magic back, and conclude it's a test. After weighing whether the elders would want them to sacrifice one for the many or sacrifice their magic for the one, Mel chooses option three where this is a simulation and we should jump off the roof to escape it. Luckily for she and Harry, she was right. When they pass the test — I feel like it's more a loophole than a straight pass, cause they don't answer the quandary — they really get their powers and leave the astral plane.
