Ro3: Something Wicked...

With the night came fog and light rain, the light of dusk diffusing through the mist and giving the city an alien look. Just as the book had foretold. Metal beasts still sped across flattened stone, streaks of light both red and white glowing through the mist, it was as if the world was in flames once again. Would that it truly were, the shattering homes of the world turned to ash. One of these beasts would be taking Jim the would-be hero to his lover, it would not do to tarry. She turned up her collar against the expected rain and stepped through the dark.

The home of the twins was all too easy to find, the twisting energies from the ring of three pushing the mist at bay. She touched her hand to the door. The gate burned with memories, breaking off this small piece of the Earth from the rest of the world. It tasted like the comfort and safety of familial love, shared hopes and dreams and the desire to protect one another against a cold and uncaring world. There was something else there, a recent addition of unwanted spices of lust and magic. The gate was ashamed that it had allowed this darkness to be smuggled within its gates.

“She held you open, it is not your fault. They do not remember the old pacts.”

If the gate heard her it gave no indication. She looked to the sky, allowing the rain to mask her tears. Countless times had she placed her ear against these doors listening to the clinking of cocktail ice or the trickling of roman baths, but rarely was she invited to see the places where people grew old and died. Now was not the time for tears of joy, that would come when Sharon bore her ring. As she closing her hand over the doorknob the gate gathered up all that emotion and bashed it into her, she felt as though she had been slugged in the chest. She held on, focusing on Joan's invitation as she twisted with all her considerable might. She **** the invitation through the torrent of ancient energies and suddenly all resistance was gone. Under the growing light of Gemini and Luna the pact was broken. This gate would see her through tonight.

*written by FK