She woke up face down on the ground, grass filled with morning dew tickling her cheek as she opened her eyes to a world of green.
She slowly sat up in the grass, looking around herself. She seemed to be in a thick forest, which confused her as there were no forests like this near the Villa.
She sat there some, wondering how she could have got there. What was the last thing she remembered...? It was the night of the Ritual, wasn't it? No, she was doing the ritual, she was almost done! and then... pain in her back, and falling through the portal.
Her hand goes to her back, searching for a wound, and finding nothing but dried blood. "Wha...." she brings her hands around to her face, looking at the dried flakes of blood on them "What happened... I fell through the portal...?"
"No.. NO.. Where's the VIlla? How do I get home?! I can't have gone through the portal. Where am I?!" She's crying and yelling into the forest. Lost and confused, all alone for the first time in her life.
Eventually, her tears slow and she sits there, her legs drawn up and her arms around her knees, her head resting on them staring vacantly at the forest in front of her. A butterfly comes and lands on her knee in front of her face and her focus turns to it. "Butt...erfly...? What...?" she blinks some at the butterfly, watching it fold and unfold its wings, what looks like glowing dust falling off every time the wings move.
She startles suddenly and sits up straight "Wait! That's magic! Are.. are you my familiar..?" The butterfly glows once at her before laying there with his wings open "I...I need to do the binding Ritual then right..? I should have everything in my pouches..!!"
She brings her hand to the butterfly and lets it settle on her finger before she stands, setting the butterfly in her hair she starts digging around in her pouches "Empty Taglock, Golden Chalk, Fiery Chalk, Eldritch Chalk, Demon Heart, Ectoplasm and Mandrake Root... That's all of it!"
She claps her hands and looks around "Grass is not ideal to draw a Ritual on... Time to find either many larger rocks or a fairly large flat area..."
She sets off in a random direction, on the hunt for a good area to do her familiar binding Ritual
Written by Kat