"Look Tesrya, I can't keep doing this for you I'm going to loose my job for this." Chris an employee at Northwich Mental Institution said as Tesrya slipped him the bag that she had been hiding her pills in for the last week.

"You have to! They check the rooms every Friday they'll find them if I hide them." Tesrya said desperately.

"Well maybe you should be taking them." Chris said, Tesrya trusted him not to tell anyone but she knew he was risking his job doing this for her; she had to get out soon.

"I've told you before they just make it worse. They don't even know what causes it so how are they supposed to give me anything to stop it." Tesrya has what people thought was some sort of unusual case of split personality disorder. It was more like possession. Tesrya knew it was magickally caused, how was a regular mental institution supposed to understand that. "Look just get rid of them, I'll try and think up some other way as soon as I can but I need you to do this for me."

"I expect you'll be wanting me to post another letter soon as well." Chris sighed. "This came this morning." He handed her letter that was addressed to Chris A Roberts. This was how she and her boyfriend Michael had been communicating for the last month. He sent letters to Chris's address but always had an A as if he had a middle name but Chris didn't have a middle name so it was like a code so Chris knew they were for Tesrya. Michael used to visit her at the institution but was banned after helping her escape twice.

"Chris you're an angel!" She grinned as Chris shook his head.

"Don't be caught with any of these either." She rolled her eyes.

"Yes I know, I know and if I do they didn't come from you. She said handing back the empty envelope with his name and address on it.

"Good because I really need this job." Chris said.

"I know I'll be careful, Chris I'm not an idiot if your fired I don't know how I'll survive in here."

"I thought the whole point was that you weren't, or are you and Michael just sending innocent love letters?" He raised his eyebrows.

"Well yes I'm leaving but still."

"You better not be expecting my help on that one the police will be investigating that and I'll defiantly loose my job then."

"No I don't your fine."

"Where are you going to go anyway? You never seem to get that far where could you actually stay?"

"I can't tell you that. That's one of the reasons I need to get out of here. Too many people know I'm here."

"What do you mean?"

"Doesn't matter, just trust me on this one before I just wanted out of here because I'm not supposed to be in here but now I'm actually in danger here. I need to leave as soon as I can and get as far away from here as possible."

"How are you in danger?"

"I can't tell you anymore than you already know, even if you believed me that would put you in danger too."

"Fair enough, I have to get to work there going to start to wonder how it takes me half an hour to clean your room and ten minutes to do everyone else's." He got up and Tesrya stuffed the letter in her pocket she would read it later when it was safe.

"Just tell them I had one of my weird turns and you had to clean up." At that moment she got a splitting pain in her head. She felt dizzy and really tired like she hadn't slept in weeks.

"Yeah, but then I'll have to explain what happened in every detail and since I haven't ever seen you have one of these things how am I supposed to know what to say. And they'll give you a full check over and probably find out you haven't been taking your meds, and then they'll; find out I've been smuggling them out for you and then I'll loose my job and that will be great." Chris said picking up his stuff to leave not looking round as he spoke. "Tesrya you ok?" Tesrya tried to answer but couldn't she needed to sleep just for a second. She had to let go of reality. She knew what that would mean but there was nothing she could do. She had no control over her body, she didn't think she was even in her body. It was like she herself was pushed right out and something else went in. She couldn't see anything it was just dark. She couldn't feel anything but a splitting headache. Though she wasn't sure how she was feeling it as she couldn't feel any other part of her body. It was strange that she could still think. When she had tried to explain what happened to doctors they never understood. It was just like she herself was in a different world for as long as it lasted which could be anything between a minute and ten minutes.

This had all started when her parents died. The Cameron family had always been in charge of the key every since it was discovered century's ago. The key itself was ancient; she didn't know what it was for exactly or much about it. She hadn't known about it until after her parents died and she automatically inherited it as their daughter. It wasn't like normal inheritances it was done automatically by the spell her ancestors had performed when they found it. Leaving it always in the care of her family. It wasn't anything solid either that she had, she could make it solid if she wanted but she knew she was never to do that. Her parents had never told her about it, they must have not expected to die that early on in life, and who would? They died in a car accident last year. After that she only had her mothers old Book of Shadows to explain anything about the key. It was supposed to be held by two people, so you had to have both of people who knew the incantation and said it in unison to make the key solid. It made it harder to get into the wrong hands. For this to work you had to have the original key holder that the key was bound to automatically and another who would also be bound to it in a ritual. This would normally be the person's muirn betha dan. But because of her parents unexpected death the proper rituals were never done. So she had it on her own, that's why she got her strange turns. Shortly after the system was thought up and put into practice by her ancestors they discovered that there was a glitch, it was too powerful for one person to be able to hold. If one person were to hold it on their own it would make them vulnerable to a strange type of possession that they thought was the actual key. How this all worked Tesrya has no idea. She knew she was in danger now though. The key was something to do with a ritual and the first signs of the ritual were the deaths of seven uninitiated blood witches. On the news the other day she had seen a report of a dead girl covered in runes. If this was what she thought it was then she was in great danger already. That's why she had to get out of here. The first thing she had done was to write to Michael. He had helped her a lot when she was in foster care before she was institutionalised. He was also a blood witch and she suspected he was he muirn betha dan. Either way he had helped her find out so much about the key and find out what it all meant. Mostly from her parents book of shadow's her mother's in particular because she was the one the key was originally bound to. She needed to read his reply to see if he had managed to find out anything more about this murder, like if the girl was a witch or not. Of course just now she could do nothing until she woke up, or was hauled back into her body again. So far she had been out a long time, longer than she ever had before.