Holbrooke and Denise are getting closer and closer with their relationship, but they still haven't established themselves as a couple, still sticking to the idea of keeping flirting with each other, but of course this wouldn't last long since both sides heard a bit of a scolding from Elisabeth and Anne, who even being younger made a point of saying that the two should at least establish themselves as girlfriends, This was already quite impressive for two women who were just flirting with each other, but also quite common among adults, since they didn't have the idea of doing something bureaucratic and complicated in relation to this relationship issue.
Margaret remained in hiding during this time, every now and then she came out of the academy in disguise to eat, so much so that some witches were beginning to report that there was a rather suspicious hooded girl walking through the halls, from there she knew that she was at a crossroads and that it was only a matter of time before someone would discover that she was hiding in the academy, to the point that they would even ask where she was hiding, or even cause a small war, since Ford is extremely powerful, powerful enough to easily kill a powerful witch, this could even be a double-edged sword for the group of girls who wanted to find her.
The days went by as usual, they were just normal school days, only having the difference that it was slowly getting colder as time went by, winter was getting closer and closer, the chances of snow began to appear, even though it was still November, the cold was already quite strong, never before had it been so cold, but the days still went on as usual, as typical school days at the academy, until another Friday arrived, on a weekend, where Diana had the idea of inviting the girls to go out with her for a while.
November 14, 1913, After school let out the girls were in their room getting ready by putting on cold weather clothes for another trip they would be taking, this time to the north, where Cavendish said it would be a special and different place for the girls to spend their days until they returned again at the academy.
- Where are we going love?
Says Louise putting on a glove.
- It's Diana, where are we going? You just told us that we are going north. So in this cold weather you want to go to an even colder place... I just hope it's not freezing, it looks like it's going to snow today.
Says Elisabeth.
- No more mysteries... But we are going to my family's residence, I want to show you something very interesting there, and I want you to see the Cavendish castle... Louise, I want you to meet the little family I have, I want my sister to meet you, she only knows about you from the letters I send.
Diana says.
The girls are a little impressed with the answer Diana gave them about the trip they would be taking, then they finish getting ready, take their bags outside the room and go to the academy's board of directors, since they still need authorization to go outside the radius of the academy and the city where Ley's line is located. As soon as they arrive they find Holbrooke and Denise kissing while sitting at the boardroom table.
- Mom!
Says Elisabeth.
- Ah! Elisa... We didn't notice you were here.
Says Denise rubbing the back of her head in shame.
- We just came to ask permission, today I want to take the girls with me to my family's residence in Weddinburgh.
Diana says.
- Oh okay, I'll just write down the authorization here and you can leave at will, in case someone catches you leaving, just show them this paper and then no one will be able to do anything about it, I hope you have a good time there.
Says Holbrooke.
- And we hope that you will get it right.
Says Anne.
- If you continue to pressure us, then we won't give you permission.
Denise says until Holbrooke touches her hand.
- Ah, that's no good.
Says Denise inflating her cheeks.
After this more relaxed moment, Holbrooke makes the authorization document for the girls to leave the academy and gives it to Diana who says goodbye to them, and to the girls as well, they get up from there and go towards the outside of the academy, soon after they take off and go towards the location of the academy, without speeding up much since it was not necessary, it was predicted that they would arrive at night since it was quite far, even leaving Luna Nova which was further north than the city where Ley's line was located.
Meanwhile in the corridors, a girl comes close to a mysterious hooded witch who hands her some money, it was 10 one pound coins, which even makes the student who delivered that information impressed.
- 10 pounds? All of it?
Says the witch.
- Tell me what you saw and heard? Or I'll give you ten pounds and a punch in the face.
Says Margaret holding the girl's collar.
- The girls from the blue and red teams left, I don't know where they went, but they got their permission from Principal Holbrooke, I don't think they will be back for a while, that's what I think I saw...
Says the witch.
- I get it, you can get out of here, you didn't see anything and you didn't hear anything, I'm nobody and you found this money yourself.
Says Margaret handing over coins that made 10 pounds.
Margaret just mysteriously leaves the same way she appeared in the corridor, while the girl starts to smile when she has 20 pounds in her hands, which were worth the equivalent of 2360 pounds today, she even makes a point of maintaining absolute secrecy since she had that small fortune in her hands.
As the hours pass the group of girls arrive at the Cavendish family residence, they land there where a few snowflakes were already falling, besides being a little colder than where Luna Nova is, as soon as they arrive and enter the residence they find the maids receiving the Scottish girl.
- My lady... How nice to see you here. Should I tell your sister you've arrived?
Says one of the waitresses.
- Yes, please tell her we have a visitor.
Diana says.
- Can I take the guest bag to the guest room?
Says another employee.
- Please... If it's not too much trouble, as for Louise's suitcase, which is the one with the red hair, you don't need to take it, I'll take it myself, she's someone special and that's why she'll sleep with me in my room.
Diana says.
- Ah understood, so I will help carry my lady's bags and my lady's special girl.
Says one of the butlers.
Then the house staff picks up the girls' bags and takes them to the guest rooms, which were quite a few for the huge size of the mansion, and the girls head for the living room, where they told the maid if she found Meredith to tell her that the girls were in the living room, but as soon as they arrived there was the older Cavendish sitting on a couch reading a book and listening to some radio while smoking a pipe.
- Meredith?
Diana says.
Meredith hears Diana's call, puts the book on the table where the radio was and gets up going towards the younger Cavendish, giving her a hug followed by a kiss on her forehead, they were seeing each other again after weeks without seeing each other, that moment between two sisters even made the girls around find it cute. After this hug Diana introduced each of the girls to her sister, and she already knew the names of each one from the letters that the Scottish girl used to send from Luna Nova, until she arrived at Louise where the older girl slowly arrived in an intimidating way, but then started laughing and hugging Du Nord.
- So you're my sister's girlfriend? More beautiful than what the letters described, I have to say that I am in awe of the excellent taste my sister has... A Du Nord... Diana couldn't find a more beautiful witch, you are one of the most beautiful witches in existence, I can only imagine what the fertility stone will produce. Look, after Diana Cavendish II we will again have a union between a Cavendish and a Du Nord. I'm all for it.
Says Meredith.
- Oh thank you for the compliments Meredith... May I call Diana's sister that? Or do you mind if I call you by your name?
Says Louise.
- Oh no problem girl, I am your sister-in-law, welcome to the family, we still have a lot to talk about.
Says Meredith as she let out smoke rings.
Meredith and the girls sit on the sofas and tell how their days at the academy were, Meredith even offered the girls some pipes to smoke, Bianca is one of those who doesn't refuse, she herself says she missed it, Elisabeth, Anne, Diana and Louise refuse to smoke, because they think that the smoke can be harmful, as the four of them have already had experiences and remember very well the bitter taste and the burning throat, creating a huge trauma. So much so that this ended up happening to Hilda when she went to try it.
- Ah! Cof Cof! How horrible! That's hot and bad... How do you like that?
Says Hilda coughing.
- Easy Hilda, this has to be enjoyed gently and delicately, it is a pipe made with the Cavendish blend made by a relative of an English branch of ours named Thomas Cavendish, he who invented this kind of smoke blend, but only the English part of the family took credit for it... We have even been forgotten here in Scotland... You have to be delicate and taste it gently or your throat will burn, but if you don't want to, that's ok, it's not for all tastes.
Says Meredith.
The girls continued talking after this moment, while Bianca and Meredith occasionally let off some smoke rings, and when they didn't do some tricks, this instigated Hilda, who started trying just for the tricks, so much so that little by little she was enjoying it, just for the intention of doing those things, until, as the conversation went on, they got to a subject that was really heavy, about the girl who disappeared.
- Sis, I know it may be a bit of an intrusion on my part... But what about Margaret, I was extremely terrified by the letters you sent me, about her being worse than that day, you were not very detailed, but you told me that she was dangerous, that she did horrible things, I was worried about that, since it might even affect my little sister.
Says Meredith until one of the butlers arrives.
- Ladies dinner is ready.
Says the butler.
- I'll tell you after dinner, I don't want to worry my sister so much.
Diana says.
Then the girls go to the dining room where there was a real banquet, so much so that Hilda and Louise are stunned by the huge amount of food, Braunchsbank just goes attacking the food without giving a damn, taking everything that comes her way without paying much attention to class, while Du Nord ate delicately and a lot since she had never seen a banquet like that, which has already left her quite satisfied. There was so much to choose from that she didn't know what to eat. She took a little of everything in very delicate portions to enjoy the meal.
After that dinner between the girls, they get up and go with Diana who directs them to the family library, from there she asks Elisabeth and Anne if the younger Cavendish could report the occurrence of the abuse, the two girls were a little reluctant, but agree, since Meredith could also be at risk. The younger greenish-blonde haired girl tells about all the days she spent with Margaret at the academy until she was supposedly expelled, since even Holbrooke and Denise couldn't handle a girl no matter how old and experienced they were with magic.
- What... So it was even worse than I thought? Diana... Are you sure you want to stay in Luna Nova? Take the risk of being abused by Margaret? She could do much worse? Margaret has become what I feared the most... Sorry Gabrielle, but your daughter has become a monster, she is just like her father.
Says Meredith.
- Unfortunately... But I think that being stuck here won't solve anything, above all I noticed how Margareth doesn't want to sexually abuse me, on Halloween she came close to it, we almost did, but I realized that it wasn't her when I saw her body full of scars... I don't think Margaret will want to do anything to me unless I really want to, the real risk is with the other girls, I'm really afraid of what she might do to Louise or Elisabeth and Anne.
Diana says.
- Is it really Diana... I don't doubt that this girl is right under your nose in Luna Nova, you never know my sister, I don't doubt anything until she killed her own father and made everyone believe it was suicide... But let's stop talking about this subject, that's not why you came, I'm sure there is something amazing that you can discover here.
Says Meredith.
The girls are somewhat confused about the amazing thing Meredith was going to show the girls, placing the first Cavendish's book on the fertility stone on the table, which left the girls still not knowing what it was about, until the youngest Cavendish touches on the book and starts telling the girls.
- This is the book that I had always heard about, my older sister always said about this book, she just didn't show it to me because there were things in it that were a little too adult, like positions and even ways to use the fertility stone. This is the book that tells about the relic that can help lesbian witches like Louise and me to create a family.
Diana says.
- So you're saying that I, for example, don't have to give in to a guy if I want to get pregnant? That I can get pregnant with Bianca?
Says Hilda somewhat confused.
- Exactly that, if you want my sister to show you where it talks about this in the book.
Diana says.
Meredith starts from there to show the pages of the book arriving at one that showed each of the nine relics necessary for the formation of the stone, one of these nine was the most important "The stone of love" which was a relic that only appeared if the feeling between the two witches who kissed in that cave was true, it only serves as a basis for the stone of fertility, since alone it had not even the slightest ability to achieve such a feat.
It also shows the location of each of the relics on a detailed map of the earth, being the Cavendish Ruby, located in Weddinburgh at the Cavendish family residence. The Love Stone, located on an island in the far north of Scotland. The Magic Violets of Farnese, located in Loch Ness, Scotland. The Meridies' Magic Gears, located in the Meridies' residence, which changes location from time to time, currently installed in Florence, Italy. Marianne Von Hoffen's magic feather, located in the Arcturus forest, can also be obtained during Luna Nova's annual broom relay, as it adorns the trophy. Elf Nectar, located in the Irish countryside at a well in a village of the last remaining elves, also has a few bottles stored in the McLaren family residence. Anna Arnoux's Sacred Water, located in the French countryside, where the place more specifically pointed out exactly where Terre Sapphique was, where it is also currently the Du Nord family's residence, even making Louise impressed that it is her former home. Himalayan butterflies from Chenoa Ayana, located in the place that gives it its name, more specifically in the Tibet region. Since some of these relics are still very far away, the girls decided that they would wait until graduation to go on an adventure together in search of each of the relics, and also take the opportunity to strengthen the relationships they had with each other.
- If this book is real I will be grateful, I really want to be a mother and not have to give in to someone else...
Hilda says.
- My family also produced a variant of this fertility stone, invented by my ancestor Victoria McLaren, and it is not as complex to obtain as this one, but it is very efficient, easier to get.
Says Elisabeth.
- But I imagine it will be much weaker too, since the version created by my ancestor involves more relics and even splits into four other fragments, those that can give you four pregnancies... But I don't know, I intend to improve a little the studies of this first Diana, take advantage of the technology of today to know how it really works, since my sister told me that this book only tells how magic works, so it's no fun, I wanted to see the biological part, report this for future generations, put a little more science to prove this miracle of magic.
Diana says.
The girls are even impressed by the wisdom of Diana's speech, she may not have read the book but she knew a lot of details about what her sister told her when she was younger. After telling them about the fertility stone, the girls go to their rooms, where the couples take advantage of all the luxury to grab each other, especially Hilda and Bianca, who have never seen such pompousness. But in Luna Nova there was a strange movement in the dungeon, it seems that Margaret has decided to act again, Ford is again going to commit a crime, but this time it is strange because Diana and the girls are not present.
See you, Cavendish witches...