Witch (Ruby Rose)

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"What took you guys so long?"

Dominique asks Ruby and I when we join them on the beach as the sun sets. I blush remembering the exact reason for our lateness. We spent almost the whole day in my room, making unbelievable love and just laying in each others arms. We almost forgot that we were supposed to be here.

"I had to look for something for Ruby to wear." I lie with a smile, knowing my mom was listening. My brother gives me a knowing look but doesn't say anything.

"Ok well, we're going to start now so you two go kneel in the middle over there."

We nod and make our way to the centre, everyone else standing around with sage and frankincense burning. I kneel in front of Ruby and take her hands, squeezing them gently and giving her a smile to reassure her. Her nervous expression melts away slowly and she smiles back at me as my mothers walk to stand either side of us.

Ivy is dressed in black while Iris is in white, both of them with veils over their faces and crowns on their heads that represents their statis of being the high priestesses of our coven. The rest of us are in white, except Dominique who's in grey.

My mothers rests their hands on our heads and start chanting, Ruby and I following in suit.

Pretty soon we're in the trance, the same as we were when we met the Moon Goddess; my freckles lighting up as stars, the veins under Ruby's eyes raised up under her skin, both of our eyes glowing as we stare at each other as our energy surges through us. The necklaces around our necks glow as well, they seem to have a hand in making us more powerful as the goddess said. The whole atmosphere around us is charged with so much powerful energy as the ritual continues, everyone else following the chant in the circle as the sun disappears. Our only light now is from the moon and the candles floating around us.

Iris and Ivy remove their hands from our heads and move back from us, allowing Dominique to come to our side as his hand replaces theirs.

As soon as this happens, his eyes turn white and cryptic writings and patterns appear on his skin in bold black lines as if they were tattoos. I notice Ruby panic a little as she sees this, probably not expecting that to happen. I squeeze her hands to show her it's alright and that she should just focus on me.

Dominique goes into a deep trance, seeing things only he can of what is to come in the future. The rest of us can only concentrate on not breaking his trance or seance and wait for him to reach the end of his vision.

After some more minutes, he slowly start coming out of his trance, the ink on his skin disappearing and he's eyes going back to their chocolatey brown colour. He moves away from us and back to his spot in the circle while my mothers come back to either side of us, this time connecting their hands over us staring a new chant that thanks the Moon Goddess. The items of some gold, silks, herbs, etc, that are levitating around us start disappearing into glittery dust that flows through the wind meaning the goddess has accepted them and has blessed this rite.

Everything calms down as Ruby and I go back to normal. She smiles nervously while looking around.

"Is it done? Did everything go right? I didn't fuck it up, did I?"

I giggle lightly and pull her into my arms with a peck on her forehead.

"Yes babe, it's done. And you did great." I put my hands on her face and pull her into a kiss, feeling her relax from relief as her arms circle around my waist. However, we soon pull apart at my mothers voice.

"No, not while I'm around. Distance yourselves from each other. Iris make her let go of my little girl." She says with a strained whine that once again is out of character for her. Iris just laughs and pulls her away, announcing that we should change and get ready for dinner before Dominique tells us what he saw.