Deconstructing A Curse [Open]

[bewitchinghaze]

 It's been three days since Val dragged Lou home from the police station and found the cursed plant by her bedside. Three days of trying to figure out what kind of plant it was, exactly. She's at the end of her rope with the goddamn menace, and that feeling of uselessness brought on by Yura's visit, and the news of her grandmother's passing, has reached its peak. It's time for drastic measures.

She tosses her mage kit onto her shoulder and writes a quick note to Riley, pinning it on the fridge to let her know where she is. Gathering the plant into her arms, she heads out in the the woods behind the house. She knows of a clearing surrounded by hawthorns (known for their magic enhancing abilities) and various wild flowers that will help contain negative magics so she heads straight there.

Setting the plant down in the middle of everything, she lays a circle of herbs around the edge of the clearing and calls up a bubble of magic to contain her workings. Everything set, she sits tailor style in the middle of the clearing and begins to clear her mind and falls into her magic. The green fire at the centre of her is blazing in response to her surroundings and ready to dig itself into this curse. Val lets a vine of it reach into the slimy feeling black magic around the plant, searching for the chinks in the curse. She sorts through the different bits and pieces of magics, tugging away a curse for hallucinations, another for distrust... Finally reaching the centre of it all and the toughest bit of magic, she shoves a blaze of her magic at it.

The backlash is spectacular. She's physically knocked back from the plant, the release of the curse exploding it, and the pot its in, sending sharp shards of pottery to slice cuts into her cheek and arms. Hitting the ground, she has a brief moment to think 'Fuck' and 'I hope someone finds that fucking note' before she blacks out.

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[jiyunnies]

Riley wakes up late in the day, her first day off in a long time. She thinks it's a bit odd that Val didn't wake her up bright and early, but then her sister knows how overworked Riley's been over the past few weeks and given their recent news, she figures her sister probably wanted to let her rest for once. She stretches, pads into the kitchen and grabs a bagel, stuffing it into her mouth as she reads the note on the fridge. Just Riley and Flavia for a few hours then.

She's busy opening a can of soft cat food for Flavia, the cat stretching lazily across the kitchen counter as she waits for her treat, when Riley suddenly feels a pain against her cheek as the wind gets knocked out of her. She falls back onto her butt, Flavia jumping down to make sure she's okay. "Oh shit." Riley's back on her feet in a moment, catching her breath as she grabs her bag and rushes out the door.

In a few minutes, she finds the clearing the sisters have used plenty of times for various spells and practicing. She finds Val on her back, knocked out. "Soo-Yun! Soo-Yun, wake up." Riley pats her sister's cheek, sending a glow of magic into her.

[weatherornot]

Genevieve had never been in a place like Siren Cove before. Hell, she'd never been out of Louisiana before so all the forest and rocky shoreline in places was somewhat fascinating. She wouldn't have thought she was the kind of person to go for hikes but she actually liked it. She'd even invested some of her meager savings in a pair of decent running shoes that made navigating the forest easier. It was kind of nice to stumble upon an interesting spot here and there for some quiet contemplation. She never knew what she would find in the area surrounding the town.

What she did not expect to find though was a body. That was her first thought, that she'd stumbled upon someone that was dead. Which was why she almost just turned and walked away because she did not need that kind of trouble. But if the girl wasn't dead...

Kneeling over the body she reached out and put a hand to the girl's neck to feel a pulse there and breathed a sigh of relief. Of course, now things got a bit complicated.

"Okay," she said. "Beautiful girl unconscious in the woods. Am I supposed to kiss you to wake you up or something? Or just call 911."