Beast In Me (Watty Awards)

Chapter 10 - Confusion, That's me

I fell asleep in the car and I started to dream.

" Jessamine?" an elderly woman called to me. She was beautiful even with her age. Her eyes were a deep brown and her hair was a white color but I could tell that it was once blond. She was dressed in a dress, the color of a maroon brown, that came down to the middle of her shin and she wore no shoes. She had a long wooden cane in her right hand and she was putting all of her weight onto it. She was bent over slightly, possibly with the pain in her back or her old age. She had a very patient, peaceful, look upon her face even with the amount of the pain she may be in.

" Me?" I looked around. I was in a small hut with a dirt floor and dirt walls. The roof was made out of a rough unknown object. There was a table and a large metal tub laying on top of it with wooden dishes and dirty water. In the far corner was a small cot with hay on it. The door way was just a carved arch way in the wall with a sheet covering it.

" You are Jessamine, so yes, you. Come along, baby girl. The gathering is to start within sunset." The woman had a twinkle of humor in her eye. She turned and walked out.

I jumped up and ran after her and said " Wait! I think you might be confused..." My sentence faded as I looked around me. It was completely dark with the exception of the light streaming in from a wall. Now this is hard to explain, even to myself. It looked like a larger arched hole in the wall. 150 feet tall, possibly. There was water streaming down from it. Like a waterfall. We were in a large cave!! Under a waterfall!!  The only light was the light coming in from the sun going through the waterfall. It was breath taking as soon as I realized what it was that I was looking at. Inside the cave, there were many huts. Although, when I looked at the one I just came out of, they were all considerably smaller.

" Princess Jessamine! You must light the fire of man soon, my lady. The night is almost upon us!" A very tall, very bony man said to me. He was fidgeting with his hands and couldn't seem to hold still. He had brown hair and dark green eyes.

" The fire?" as soon as I said that the large septor that I held in my hands, that I somehow didnt notice earlier, lite up to bright bright red and it almost hurt to look.

Something took over my body and I lifted the scepter high above my head and people started to surround me and they started chanting:

Lady weave your circle tight

Spin a web of glowing light

Earth and air, and fire and water,

Bind us to Thee.

My scepter responded to this odd chant and I held it tighter as the rays of the moon began to shine on the deep, blood, red color of the scepter. My body took over again and I began to chant:

Circle round the fire,

to raise the cone of power,

to bring what we desire,

oh so mote it be!

Weave the magic by the moonlight

Dance the circle all night long.

Weave the magic by the moonlight,

Come and sing the Witches Song.

Then there was fire everywhere.

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I jumped out of the bed I was in and landed hard on the carpeted floor. I rolled over so that I was laying on my back.