M3.64 Traces of Supremacy

Merlin 3.64 Traces of Supremacy

The black magic witch Ostara, returns to the caverns to serve Sino once again, sees Lilith and remembers how effortlessly she was thrown into the canyon river at the bridge of the Vermillion vampire fortress, and decides to hide and find another way into Sino’s fortress.

Lilith walks by the dead and with her demonic magic she awakens them, wounded they rise and kneel. Ostara uses a quick cursing spell to turn Lilith’s berserkers into ghouls to have them attack her. As they turn fiendish, Lilith draws the black magic from their wounds and turns right at Ostara.

Lilith: Kill her then find your brothers in the mountain!

They charge as black smoke drawn out now gathers at her feet, Ostara has few options, be run down by werewolves, curse them with death’s rigor in hope that it holds them, or turn them to ghouls and hope that in their stupor she can again yet outrun them or crush their temples. She extends her hand and curses them with rigor, but not all are close enuf to her magic for potency, they are pack hunters by nature and surround her, where she takes what lifeforce she can from them making them ghouls, but she is weak from journey and gesture, unable to hex them all, three frozen, three bashed. For the last, with the blood on her face summons ancestral magic, the spirits of ancient werewolves bless her in confusion, she survives the last, only to stand face-to-face with Lilith.

Lilith: Messy, uncreative, without deception.
Ostara: Who are you?
Lilith: I am the darkness between shadows.

Lilith takes the air into her hand, Ostara becomes bound by invisible forces of nature.

Ostara: I can help.
Lilith: Did you know I am connected to them?
Ostara: I give you service, pure service, majesty.
Lilith: These doors, there are strings of spiders between myself and the dead, you know, the open doors, and here I am with another fly in my web on the same night…
Ostara: What are you doing to me?
Lilith: You wander taking life, so I must take your mind.

Lilith puts her hand to Ostara’s head as her feet danger in the weeds, like a painless wave her eyes roll up and she floats asleep, as do so Lilith’s from the ground. Lilith learns all from deepest to surface memories, but Ostara falls muted as Lilith leaps into a shadow to outside the mountain entrance, peering aside.

/mj.banks