"My hands float up above me The music makes me sway I'm alive, I'm alive" —
And you whisper you love me
And I begin to fade
Into our secret place
The angels singing say we are alone with you
I am alone and they are too with you
Diana felt dizzy and overwhelmed. Too many things had happened in the past few minutes. Her mind couldn't process anything anymore. Is this a dream? A really crazy dream?
By the pain she felt earlier and the feeling of being stripped of her powers, this all felt very real.
She looked with her teary chocolate orbs deeply into the woman's eyes, which have the same nuances of her own. "M-mom? Is it really you? Am I alive?" Diana looked puzzled, trying to make some sense out of this. "How can this be happening…?"
Diana couldn't believe the sight before her eyes. Either she was seeing things or… Am I dead? I am, ain't I? But if I'm dead, and this is the after life,… Then why Faye is like this…? She pondered to herself, now looking back at Faye lying motionless on her lap. She touched the other girl's cheeks, making contact with her soft skin that once was so warmth and invading, now feeling oddly cold.
"Oh, it is so good to see you, sweetheart." The woman's voice startled Diana, making her snapping her head up once again. "It took me a lot of power to come here, Diana. Not only mine, but from the whole coven. I'm even breaking some Heaven's rules for being here, but I had to protect you…" Her mom spoke in a calm voice.
Why are you here now, and never been here when I needed my mother many times before? Diana thought, as she wished her mother was by her side at the most important moments of her life. "Me? Protect me? Mom, I've lived 16 years without protection and look at Faye…!" she paused "she was the one needing protection!" Diana started crying looking at Faye. Diana would never be so rude to her mother, in fact, there was so much she wanted to say, but right now she was worried senseless about Faye. If she was here and powerful enough to vanquish that demon, how come she didn't arrive a few minutes earlier to stop the demon from hurting Faye so badly?
"You were never without protection, Diana. I've been with you all this time. I've seen you grow up, turn into this beautiful woman and powerful witch… I couldn't just come here and visit, but you should know that I was always close to you. As for Faye…" her mother's voice trailed off, revealing there was not much she could do. "I know how much you love her, it emanates and it's so strong, so powerful, which is what attracted this demon all the way here."
Love her? It goes beyond love… Diana thought, her heart pounding in her ears.
"I know darling and I am so sorry." her mother said, sympathetically.
Diana was beyond confused now "Wait… Can you read my mind?" she asked, brown eyes wide open in astonishment.
Elizabeth smiled "It's not exactly mind reading, but our energies are always connected. Come here, my baby girl…" her mom came closer, holding her daughter tight in her arms. She'd been wanting forever to do that. "Can you feel this? That's why I've always been close to you. Every day I shared all your thoughts, emotions, fears, happiness… "
Yes, Diana could feel it all. She could feel their energy linked together. She could feel her mother's cozy embrace, and it was exactly how she dreamt it would be like many times before. Her dad had always been good for her, but not a day went by in her a life where she didn't wish she could just hold her mother. All this overflow of feelings somehow proofed her that she was indeed alive. So if she was still alive, and she was really seeing her mother there, that means that Faye was really…
As her mother held her tight, Diana cried intensely now, looking down at Faye's body "Mom, I can't lose her. I-I…" Diana tried to speak but the words wouldn't come out, she was crying and shaking.
"I know, sweetheart, but I'm afraid there's not much left that we could do now…" Elizabeth tried to comfort Diana, who jumped at her sentence.
"There HAS to be something! Sh-She sacrificed herself for me, mom! Faye, you're so stupid, why do you always have to do the stupidest things?" Diana cried harder, holding again Faye tight against her chest "Don't leave me, I love you…" she whispered in Faye's ear.
But then, as she was pressing the girl's face against her neck, she felt a light breathing.
Immediately, she looked at Faye's face "Faye? Mom, she just…!" Diana grabbed Faye's wrist, trying to calm herself down and see if she could feel something. After a few seconds, she felt a weak pulse. "SHE'S ALIVE!" Diana jumped "I HAVE TO CALL AN AMBULANCE!" Diana laid Faye back to floor carefully and rushed to the phone.
She dialed 911, and just as she turned around to inspect Faye and begin to explain the situation to the phone operator, she noticed her mom was no longer there "WHAT? SERIOUSLY?" she yelled while on the phone "No, no, I'm sorry! It's my friend, she's unconscious but she's breathing and there's a weak pulse, please hurry…!" Diana begged while giving Faye's address and hurrying back to her side.
-
Only a few minutes later, the ambulance got to the Chamberlain's and from that moment on, everything seemed to go on slow motion for Diana, almost as if she was outside her body, just observing the surreal events that followed.
First she saw the paramedics giving Faye initial care, overhearing words such as "critical state", "weak pulse" and "cardiac arrest". Diana wanted to respond properly, but she was so numb she just stood there apprehensively watching the whole thing. When the paramedics asked what happened, Diana froze. She hadn't thought about what excuse she'd give. It's not like she could say that a demon from another dimension had almost drained her friend to death. So she managed to say that she had found her friend like that.
Minutes later she was sitting in the ambulance on the way to the hospital, still unable to process what was happening around her. She had tried to reach Dawn, but Faye's mom was nowhere to be found, which only made her situation worse right now. She was now seating alone in the hospital having to deal with all this. For a second, she considered calling Cassie or Melissa, or even her father, but they wouldn't be helpful at all and if anything, they would probably try to send her home and get some rest, which was the last thing she would do. She had to be here for Faye in case she woke up. She HAD to wake up. Soon. Otherwise she was gonna go insane.
-
During all afternoon, Diana paced back and forth through the hospital corridor, still really shaken up with everything that had happened in the last few hours, unsuccessfully trying to get information on Faye's state. Since they were not related, the doctors and nurses wouldn't say a thing until Dawn got there.
Every single time Diana recalled all the things she had said to Faye that morning, and the way Faye reacted when she was trying to save her from that demon, she wept. The anger that she earlier felt because of Faye's reckless acts, was now replaced by the fear of losing her. She couldn't remain mad at the girl that was now hanging by a thread. She felt so guilty for not forgiving Faye sooner, wishing she could go back in time, and reply to Faye's last words to her with an "I love you too". Now she feared she wouldn't get a second chance…
Think about how it all happened, she regretted not calling Dawn immediately once she found out Faye was alive. But after she called 911 everything happened so fast and what was she supposed to say to the girl's mother? "I'm sorry to give you this news, Ms. Chamberlain, but Faye's at the hospital. I went to your house to confront her about using a spell to have sex with me but we were attacked by a demon, that fed on all of her energy, and now your daughter is barely alive", or perhaps "Ms. Chamberlain, I hate to tell you this, but I came to check on Faye, and I found her on the floor, barely breathing. We are at the hospital now…".
After not finding a good lie and deciding she did not had the energy for this right now, Diana figured it would be better to let the hospital contact Faye's mother anyway. They'd come up with a better way to give her the news than her.
-
The sun was already setting when Dawn hurriedly entered the hospital doors, screaming and asking for Faye, not even acknowledging Diana sitting quietly on the hospital lobby. Almost immediately, a doctor went to talk to Dawn right there and Diana overheard the whole conversation.
The young doctor told Dawn that Faye had had a cardiac arrest and arrived at the hospital with almost no vital signs, and even though her state was serious, he needed her immediate permission to get Faye into surgery. He explained that since that morning, Faye had been having irregular beat rates, dangerously slower most of the times, as a result from the cardiac arrest and that they needed to immediately install a pacemaker to assure her heart wouldn't stop next time her beat rates lowered like that.
Dawn was a strong woman and didn't show that many emotions in front of the doctor, but fear slowly appeared once she quickly signed the papers for Faye's surgery.
Diana was still motionless sitting on her chair, still trying to think about what she would say to Dawn. After the doctor left, she slowly walked towards Faye's mother, which hugged her in return like she'd never done before "Diana, darling" Dawn hugged her tight and the girl realized she probably pretended she was hugging her daughter right now. But she didn't even care, she needed this hug and she needed comfort just as much as Dawn did right now.
They stood there silently holding each other until Dawn broke the silence "I guess you heard what the doctor said…" the girl nodded "it's gonna be okay…" Dawn said, repeating it like a chant, giving one more hug on Diana, letting go of her afterwards, and putting on her brave face once again. Faye surely got her brave pose from her mother, Diana thought.
-
During the night, Diana and Dawn waited at the waiting room, even after Dawn asked several times for the girl to go home and get some sleep, but Diana was not going to take such an absurd request. She had to be here for Faye, it didn't matter if she was feeling tired or hungry, which, given a good thought even though she should be, she wasn't. The only thing she could do right now was worry about Faye and this damn surgery which apparently was taking longer than expected.
Several hours later, a doctor approached them to inform the surgery had been successful but Faye's state was still serious. She was in a coma and they were having trouble stabilizing her vital signs. She's need a day to recover until they started new exams, checking for brain damage or other causes of that mysterious coma.
"Can we see her?" Diana desperately asked. Even if Faye wouldn't answer, she just needed to see her and be close to her.
"I'm afraid you can't. I'm sorry. She's been taken to the post-op room, but the nurses are still taking samples for further exams." The doctor explained all the exams Faye still had to do and asked both women to go home get some rest, assuring them the hospital would call if Faye's situation changed.
Diana was hesitant, but soon she realized there was no fighting Dawn, it would probably be best if she just headed home and came back first thing in the morning.
"Please take good care of her" Diana asked the doctor, as Dawn dragged her out of the hospital.
-
As she came to her senses, finally waking up to the sound of loud yelling and crying, Faye opened her eyes to find herself definitely not at her bedroom. It was oddly dark, the floor was muddy beneath her, and it was there it was the complete opposite to 'colder than a witch's tits'. Where the hell am I?
She sat up trying to make sense of what happened. She could remember that that morning she was packing her shit to leave town, and then Diana showed up. They fought, cried, Diana left asking for her to never talk to her again, and then hell broke loose and a demon appeared in her room… Oh, shit. Hell. That's where she actually is. Now she remembered it all. She sacrificed herself to save Diana. She made a deal with the devil to spare the girl she loved, and that got her to this place.
She should be sad for being here, but mostly the only thing she could be right now was terrified. She didn't regret it, though. She knew that demon had brought her here and there was no sign of Diana, so hopefully her plan of sacrificing herself had worked and Diana would now live happily without her. Faye closed her eyes, remembering the last image she saw before blacking out. Diana frightened face, looking at her, tears pouring from her beautiful brown eyes. She felt like crying as she relived that scene, but her eyes seemed like they were dry out of tears.
The air was thick and Faye now realized she was having trouble breathing. Each time she inhaled, it felt like her lungs were on fire. Guess I really got the highway to hell, Faye thought, getting on her feet, not quite ready to explore the land yet. Everything about this place looked hostile and she had a feeling that looking for a big door with an 'EXIT' sign on top of it would be useless, but she had to try.
Looking around, she saw an immense land surrounded by volcanoes. The blue sky she was used to see was no longer there. The sky in here was red, with frequent thunder and lightings and she could eventually spot giant creatures afar crossing the skies. They looked like some dinosaurs that if Faye had paid attention to in class, she'd probably be able to name them.
Faye's thoughts were abruptly interrupted by a punch in the face that made her drop to the floor immediately.
"Welcome to Hell, witch." A demon growled staring down at the girl.
When she came to her senses after the knock out, she found herself surrounded by a group of demons, analyzing her figure, eventually touching her.
Faye felt dizzy and sick at her stomach. She was trapped like an animal by a dozen demons and it did not feel good at all. She could hear them talking, probably about her, some in foreign demon languages which just sounded like consonants soup.
"Back. OFF!" Faye yelled, mentalizing the demons backing away from her, but her powers didn't work here.
"Don't bother trying using your powers…" the largest of them said, which Faye figured to be probably their leader "…they will be useless here" he continued "you just entered a world of pain and misery. We will render you powerless, destroy you, you'll be our slave for eternity." He grabbed her neck, almost scratching his claws against her skin "You'll forget who you are, what you were, you'll be nothing but walking food to us!" He started laughing and the whole group joined him "And when there's nothing left, you can join your friends over there…" he motioned to a cavern to her left, turning Faye's head in that direction.
She tried to adjust her eyes to the darkness of the cavern, that was in a far distance but she could see and smell how terrible it was. It looked almost like a cemetery, only a million times creepier. All the way to the cavern she could see human corpses lying around, giant demon snakes coming out of the ground, a few demons still feeding from the corpses and the only soundtrack in this dimension seemed to be infinite screams of pain. Faye's stomach dropped.
She was only 16 and her destiny was to be demon food from now on.
When she sacrificed, she knew she wouldn't be going to a happy place, with rainbows and flowers, but this was far much worse then she could have ever imagined. She looked at the demon once again and decided she would put an end to this herself. It was a desperate act, but she preferred die on her own terms than give the chance to all these demons torture her to death.
Grabbing the knife from the demon's belt, she quickly sliced it through her throat, as blood started to pour from it immediately, yet she didn't feel weak or dizzy even. Holding the bloody knife in her hands, she listened to the demons laughing loudly.
"What a nice guest you are, serving us drinks…" the demon said, gathering her blood in his palm and drinking it "Perhaps, if you were trying to kill yourself, I might warn you that it won't work. That would be too much of an easy way out, wouldn't it? This is why only we can cause you pain." he stated, squeezing her throat, his sharp claws digging in her flesh, making her blood gush. All the pain she didn't feel till now hit her in a second as she screamed begging for him to stop "Yes, I should. 'Cause there's no fun in letting you drain to death on your very first day." he shrugged, pressing his palm against the deep cut and cauterizing it immediately, as Faye could smell her own burnt flesh, her eyes shutting in pain.
As he finished, they saw a red light crossing the sky, a weak body dropping to the floor came by the end of the light. All the demons turned their attention to it, leaving Faye lying there. "Don't go anywhere" the two last of the demons to walk away mocked, dragging her by the hair and dropping her in a pile of bones. Faye moved away weakly, realizing it didn't matter for them right now, she would never get to leave anyways, so they soon would come back to torture her some more.
Getting back on her feet, she started to walk away, trying not to draw the demons' attention and hoping to find a safe place she could stay, even though it seemed impossible in such a hostile place.
As she walked away towards the back of a cave, another group of demons emerged from a pile of stones.
"Oh, fuck…" Faye cursed, realizing there was no running away from these guys too.
-
After Diana was forced to leave the hospital, she went home to find her dad there waiting for her. They didn't share a word. He probably had already heard the news of Faye — Chance Harbor was a small town after al — and Charles simply embraced his daughter tight, who crumbled down on his arms in no time. "She'll be fine, honey. You'll see." Were his words to finally break the silence.
He had made her dinner, but she couldn't eat. It was like her throat was closed. So they sat silent in the living room, close to the telephone, just in case. Diana cried her heart out on her dad's chest, while he kept caressing her soft hair, soothing his daughter until her crying faded. Even though she was exhausted, she couldn't rest. Every time she closed her eyes, the images of lifeless Faye rushed back in to her mind. Then the images of her mother.
She figured it would be best if she didn't tell her father what happened, probably her mother would never come back, she had made clear that it took a lot for her to be there to help her. Even with a million thoughts racing through her mind, she somehow managed to sleep, at least for a few hours.
-
When she woke up on the next day, her dad was already off to work, but had left her breakfast. She tried to eat something, finally getting some food on her system. After taking a hot bath, which she hoped would help her wake up from this nightmare, she went straight back to the hospital.
Arriving there, she was relieved to find out Faye was already in a private room and more relieved to know Dawn saved a free pass card for her so she could see Faye whenever she wanted.
Hurrying to the room, Diana's heart stopped at the sight. Faye never looked so weak like today in that hospital bed. She had tubes and wires all over her arms and head, an oxygen mask in symphony with the beepings of Faye's heart monitor. Walking past the door, Diana gently knocked, drawing the nurse's attention for a second.
"Hi, come in" she said, while still focused on plugging new tubes to Faye's head and watching carefully to one of the monitors.
Diana took a few steps closer, lumps forming in her throat. She didn't want to cry right now, she had to be strong for Faye. She looked around and realized Dawn was not in the room "Thank you. Isn't Ms. Chamberlain here?"
"She went to the cafeteria, but said she would be back soon." The nurse looked at her again "Are you two related?" she looked between Faye and Diana, who was now facing Faye.
"She's… my friend" Diana sadly said. "She's my everything." she finished, her trembling finger touching Faye's chin.
"I'm sorry, it must be hard on you. She's so young…" the old lady trailed "but she's a fighter. It's been a long time since I saw one this strong."
"Yes, she is." Diana proudly stated, caressing Faye's dark hair. Her breathing was so weak "Do you know how the surgery went? How her heart is?"
"I just started my shift, but I suppose it went well, it seems stable now. It's her coma we have to worry about now." the nurse said, taking a few last notes.
Diana caressed Faye's hair, gently planting a kiss to her right cheek when all of sudden blood started pouring from her neck, revealing a deep cut on Faye's throat.
"What the…!" Diana jumped "She's bleeding, help her!" She yelled to the nurse, looking incredulous at the open wound.
"What happened?" The nurse's eyes widened. Never in her life she had seen such a thing. One moment the girl was laying still, the next one she had a deep wound on her neck. If she hadn't been paying attention, she would call security imagining Diana had hurt her, but she was certain that happened by itself "Did you do something?"she wanted to make sure.
"No! I was just touching her hair and…" Diana's mouth fell open as the words trailed off. The sight of Faye's blood on her hands made her sudden regret eating at all.
The nurse immediately push the buttons by Faye's bed, calling the doctors and quickly making her way to Faye's side, applying pressure with bandages and trying to stop the intense bleeding.
Diana was terrified and didn't want to let go of Faye, but the nurse was already asking her to back away. With a weak voice, she kissed Faye's forehead and whispered in her ear "Please come back to me. I miss you. I love you…".
Seconds later, two doctors entered the room, questioning what had happened and asking Diana to leave the room. She didn't quite obey and instead of leaving the room, she stood by the corner, watching the movements of the doctors as the nurse explained the situation. When she removed the bandages by the wound though, they could only see a deep burnt mark across Faye's neck.
The doctors looked at each other in confusion, as one of them escorted Diana out of the room "Wh-Wait!" Diana wanted to be protest, but the door was closed behind her and she could only hear mumbling inside the room, watching a new group of doctors entering there after a few seconds.
-
Diana stood outside Faye's room, leaning her back against the wall in shock, staring into a blank space and trying to process what she'd just seen.
She didn't even notice as her two friends got closer, only snapping out of her thoughts when she felt a light tap on her shoulder "Diana?" Cassie gently asked, already bringing her closer in a tight embrace "Are you okay? What happened? We came as soon as we heard".
Diana thought if she should tell the girls everything as she hugged Melissa, realizing later that it would probably take hours for the story to make sense. And probably even so, it wouldn't make sense, so she should just choose the convenient and less painful version "I'm not sure, I got to her room yesterday and she was lying there, with weak vital signs and… she had a cardiac arrest" Diana cried, remembering the scene.
"Oh my god, but… She's so young" Cassie and Melissa tried to comfort Diana, although it seemed impossible right now, the girl shook like a leaf.
"Is there anything we can do? I mean, maybe something 'magical'?" Melissa spoke the last part in a lower voice as they sat Diana back in the waiting room, trying to calm her down. Cassie had her arm around Diana while Melissa held her hand as they worriedly exchanged glances.
They've never seen Diana like this. Diana somehow always seemed like a centered, strong person, the kind of person that, even when things were at their worse, she would keep the group's balance and carry everyone along with her. But right now she was just a fragile girl who needless to say, was scared senseless that their friend would not come out of her coma.
"Shh, Diana… It's gonna be okay…" Melissa tried to assure something she knew was a lie. For what they'd heard, things did not look good "Have you… looked into the Book?" Melissa pushed again, trying to get Diana to say something. She knew Faye would be the first girl to bring up magic in a situation like this, and if Faye was in a coma, she better do what a good friend should do to try to help her.
"No, I haven't… I don't think…" Diana paused. As if her mind had finally cleared up, she thought about Faye's mysterious wound, and now things seemed to make sense to her, if that could even be called making sense.
"It's ok, I think it's best if we let doctors handle that…" Cassie said, her fingers stroking Diana's back, giving a warning look towards Melissa.
-
Faye had been walking relentlessly in that hell dimension for days, maybe weeks. Time didn't make sense for her anymore, since there were no nights or days in there and she wouldn't get any sleep even though she felt tired as hell. She figured if she stopped to sleep, she would be an easy prey for demons, and it was hard enough when they got hold of her, scratching and burning her with their sharp claws, drinking from her blood and draining her energy when she was awake. Her whole body was covered in bruises, wounds, burnt flesh and blood and sweat mixed with dirt.
She slowly started to forget how the real world looked like and why she was here in the first place. Her mission right now was to survive and that was the only thing on her mind.
As Faye slowly crawled next to a quarry, trying to find shelter, something startled her. She saw a girl, a human girl. Her mouth fell open. It was the first time she saw one in… God, how long had it been?
The girl looked more hurt than her. She had lost a limb and kind of walked with an arched back, almost in an animalistic state. Faye figured she had probably been here her longer than she had.
Faye carefully walked closer, thinking about the best way to approach her "Hi, I'm Faye. Can you understand me?" she weakly asked, it's been a long time since she heard her own voice trying to have a normal instead of conversation, which was a nice change from hearing her voice pleading for demons to stop hurting her.
The girl turned around and looked at her in desperation, no words leaving her mouth, as she started to back away.
"No, wait! I'm not gonna hurt you, I swear, we could help each other!" Faye begged, but it was too late. The girl acted like a crazy person, mumbling random words to herself and running off into the darkness.
Faye decided not to follow her. She didn't want to cause trouble or to scare the girl more than she already was. And then it hit her… she was going to become that, probably really soon.
She sat by the quarry and cried. It was not often she'd have the strength even to cry, but there was nothing else she could do. She was going insane and there was no way out from this hell.
Suddenly, her thoughts were interrupted by a sweet familiar voice, almost like it was being whispered right in her ear "Please come back to me. I miss you. I love you…"
"Diana?" Faye jumped looking around for the source of the voice, finding neither Diana nor anyone else close to her. Yeah, I'm losing my mind alright…
Her crying began again as those sweet words lingering in her ears, making her heart tighten in her chest as she replayed in her mind that voice she that would never forget.
-
When Dawn came back to the hospital, Diana had trouble explaining what had actually happened, simply because she wasn't sure herself. Not that anything about this week made any sense, but she wondered how much longer this freak show would last.
The doctors of course removed Faye from her room and started doing a whole new set of exams. Later that day, the doctors explained that every moment new bruises would appear on Faye's skin and this was so rare they had never even heard of such disease, but it was probably worsening her coma situation, since it was getting harder to stabilize her signs to perform the exams properly.
"I'm sorry to be the one to inform you, but in this hospital we have a policy of always telling the truth to our patient's families. Ms. Chamberlain, comas are always complicated and Faye's situation is even more delicate. We are doing our best, but she may not leave her coma. There are still chances she wakes up, but I wouldn't keep my hopes up. We see this happening in a lot of families and we know how hurtful that can be. It's better if you don't expect too much. She's been strong, though. You should be proud." As silence fell between them, the doctor asked if they had no further questions, excused himself and left, leaving a broken mother and a desperate friend behind.
-
That day, Diana went back home and in an act of desperation, she started flipping through the pages of her Book of Shadows. She knew that the symptoms Faye was showing were not natural and were probably the result of what happened after the demon drained her out. Faye did ask to go to the demon's dimension so he could spare her life. If that was what actually happened, it was both good and bad news. It was good because now she knew why Faye was in a serious coma. And it was bad because now Faye's soul was trapped in another dimension. And by the looks on Faye's current physical condition, things certainly weren't going any smoothly there. It was hell after all. Diana had to get Faye out of there before it was too late.
She tried first researching about the demon that injured them, but couldn't find anything. Her book didn't actually have much on other dimensions either, which brought her back to one single conclusion: she needed to summon her mother.
She wanted answers and needed help, and she already knew her mother had the power to come here. Luckily for her, the Meade's Book of Shadow had just the spell she needed for doing that. Going throw few more pages of her book, Diana stopped when she found the page with the 'Spell to Summon a Dead Ancestor'.
For a brief moment, Diana hesitated. She had never done a spell like this before. She had never done a spell that required too much power by herself either. She always had Faye on her side for that. She considered calling Melissa and Cassie to help, but that would take time, and she was in a hurry. It was Faye's time that was running out.
So she took deep breaths, gathering courage and got up immediately to collect the ingredients for the spell on her ingredients' cabinet. Five white candles, a sage stick, an incense, a vessel, and her family's ritual dagger.
She sat down on her wooden floor and placed the five candles in a circle, lighting them clockwise. As she was lighting the tip of the sage stick and incense next, placing the remain ingredients in the center of the circle, she began to chant:
"Hear these words, hear my cry,
Spirit from the other side.
I call forth from space and time,
The matriarch from the Meade line.
Come to me, I summon thee,
Cross now the great divide.
Beloved spirit, Elizabeth,
I seek your guidance.
Commune with me…"
Blood was needed to complete the spell. So Diana took the dagger up, slicing the cold blade through her left palm, as she winced in pain. While she let the blood droplets fall into the vessel, she finished the chanting:
"…Blood of my blood, I summon thee.
Blood of my blood, return to me. "
And just how the girl expected, the shimmering image of a woman in a white dress appeared in front of her, with her long brown silky hair framing her flawless features.
It worked.
{END of Part 4}