Who: Coraline and OTA Where: The woods When: Monday afternoon What: Casting a spell, and being discovered Rating: TBD
Coraline came to a stop in a clearing not far from where she had entered the woods beyond the residential area of town. The sun was still a good 6 hours from setting so she figured she'd be safe. Also it seemed that the woods were not a popular place to visit as there were very few paths that had been worn into the soft dirt floor. She swung the canvas bad off of her shoulder and stooped down to start emptying its contents. She pulled a map of the United States, several herbs she had ground to powder, and a small quartz crystal. She was attempting a location spell. If she couldn't get anyone to tell where she was, then she would use magic to find out for herself. She sat down cross-legged in front of the map and opened the bag of powder. She sprinkled the contents of the bag all around the map, and then placed the quartz crystal in the center of it. She took several deep breaths and cleared her mind.
A breeze picked up suddenly, catching her long black hair and blowing it off her shoulders. When she opened her eyes again they were as black as her hair. In a clear, commanding voice, she said. "Invenire." She could feel something stirring inside her and then a kind of mental click. Her eyes returned to normal and the crystal on the map began to glow. It lifted a few centimeters off the map and for a moment Coraline thought the spell would work. But then the crystal dropped back down onto the map and began to glow so hot that the map actually caught fire. "Oh shit!" Coraline exclaimed. Quickly she rummaged through the bag and retrieved a bottle of water. The map was almost completely burned up by the time she managed to put it out. "Well that went well." She said to herself. Clearly whatever had brought her to this place it was also preventing her from knowing exactly where it was.