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ritual {sparrow/alja} Jun 29, 2017 14:52:09 GMT -5

Post by ♛ scandal on Jun 29, 2017 14:52:09 GMT -5

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The morning sun makes beads of sweat form on my forehead. I was headed toward the coven warehouse to speak with the spirits. They have been a little weird lately. They didn't want to talk, and they have spoken to me when I was not in the coven. It was really weird. I wonder what is going on with them. That is what I will be doing, contacting them, trying to get answers for the lack of contact, and when the contact is happening it is not in the coven. The answers will need to come out. I keep walking toward the coven, and when I see the doors, I run toward them eager for answers. I push them open and go to the circle. I notice that nobody is in the coven, but I have a strange feeling of someone's presence. I can't shake the feeling, so goosebumps appear all over my arms and shiver up my neck. I go get the book, and look for the spirit contact ritual. As we have contacted the spirits, we haven't done it in a ritual way. We just talked to them by a ouija board. It says I need paper, tree bark, blood of one of the four, and someone to use as a channel. It has to be a four as well. I know just who to ask. I head to Alja's house, hoping that she will agree and we can find out what the spirits are keeping from us. I knock of her door, and yell, "Alja? Alja, are you in there. It's Sparrow." I wait for her to come out, and when I knock on the door a second time I get a splinter on my hand. It makes blood drip out of my palm. I need that blood, I remember. I swipe some of it and put it on my other palm for safe keeping.

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ritual {sparrow/alja} Jun 30, 2017 4:31:32 GMT -5

Post by Lyn𝛿is on Jun 30, 2017 4:31:32 GMT -5

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The book warns us that blood magic is dangerous.

By offering the spirits our blood, we give them a permanent link and enable them to recognize us no matter where we go. A spirit is capable of granting protection, granting magic, granting power, but still I worry that the spirit we summon may be malevolent. They are powerful beings, and a truly terrible spirit can terrorize the mind or steal one's soul.

Yet although blood is the most magically potent substance in our bodies, the Capitol still dares to demand it as a sacrifice. Every time we prick our finger at the identification center, we are making such an offering to them on pain of death if disobeyed. And of course, there are the twenty-four bodies' worth of blood soon to be spilled in the 76th Games.

The writers of that grimoire acknowledged that by offering our blood, we will be risking the unknown. But when the known is cruel and heartless, the unknown is the only way forward. I trust the spirits to guide us safely more than I do the Capitol.

"I'm here," I reply, quietly so as not to wake my family, stepping out into the bright beams of morning light. "If we're heading out to the meeting grounds, then I'm ready."

Last Edit: Jun 30, 2017 4:32:44 GMT -5 by Lyn𝛿is

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ritual {sparrow/alja} Jul 11, 2017 11:47:18 GMT -5

Post by ♛ scandal on Jul 11, 2017 11:47:18 GMT -5

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"I'm here" Alja says. Good. I beckon her to follow me as I walk down the steps, and toward the meeting grounds. The blood in my palm was hard to keep in the same spot, as I should have gotten a vial to put my blood in. I look behind me to make sure she is still following, and my eyes meet her face. I smile, and keep on walking. The meeting grounds is in the outer part of the district, so it is about a kilometer away from Alja's house.

It was still dark out, as it was around (based on the memorized star chart in the grounds) it should be about 2 am. Not that early, as it was the morning, not just the normal time people get up in the morning.

We were getting close to the grounds, as I faintly saw the tip of the building on the horizon, poking above some of the taller trees. "Alja, were close."

"Get ready for the ritual, we don't know what it will bring us. Could be a horrible idea. Could be the savior of our world."

Lets just get this over with, Alja, even though it was my idea, I am having serious flashing warning signs in my heads. I think it is a sign from the gods, but I don't know.

I give Alja a strained smile, and beckon her to follow, just in case she though she was going to go a different route to the grounds.

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ritual {sparrow/alja} Jul 11, 2017 18:09:47 GMT -5

Post by Lyn𝛿is on Jul 11, 2017 18:09:47 GMT -5

mist alja gavrilovic

"We don't know what it will bring us. Could be a horrible idea. Could be the savior of our world."

We both understand the risks of giving the spirits a link to our world, a link to our homes. Yet it's the first time I've heard her express those worries out loud.

I think of the old legends, of imprisoned dark gods that would come alive to destroy the world, of evil sorcerers who corrupted themselves by making deals with powers they did not understand.

Witchcraft is wrong, those stories say. Using the magical to deal with mundane troubles is a perversion of nature. But nature has already been perverted beyond recognition. We only seek protection from that which is not the natural order in the first place.

"You sound hesitant," I remark, because something in her voice sounds a bit off, "is there anything you need to tell me?"

It is important to be committed to any ritual one undertakes, to never take the gifts of the spirits lightly. They are to be used for maintaining peace, not for making war.

But the ancients did not live in a world such as ours. They did not live in a world where maintaining peace required twenty-four blood sacrifices every year and hundreds of bodies maimed by livestock or starved to death in the streets.

Such a peace is too high a price to pay.

"Yeah… You have to be careful when placing labels on good and evil, Celice. Never waste your anger on individuals. Always focus it on the evil within all of us."
- Lewyn, Fire Emblem: Genealogy of the Holy War