In a moment of panic, Nancey tugged her gateway spell. She hadn't waited to figure out what her new friend was channeling, and when she landed in the clearing, the soles of her soft-skinned boots were singed.

I was hoping it would be clear, but in retrospect, it is a little ambiguous. She activated her gateway spell and made it back to the clearing where she originally weaved it.

So the "Teaser" post was the only deleted scene. These posts have been the content proper that were being held up by the frustrating and possibly soon to be deleted scene. It wasn't that the scene was deleted, per se, but that it needed to occur before these scenes. Nicole was actually the main character, but then Nancey came along and the two started fighting for the position of protagonist and really Nicole needed to be introduced first if she had a chance to be recognized as the main character.

The original beginning was in Sorcery - 03 with the Teaser scene taking place between paragraphs three and four, but that displaced Nancey's introduction.

So, to recap: I nearly threw the teaser scene away because I couldn't get it to fit before Nancey's introduction but after Nicole. So I relegated it to a reluctant prologue? If I could go back and re-label it, I'd definitely make it a prologue...