Lig her fangs to tease Casey a little more, Sylvie chuckled as she trahe writing. “Nostradamus called his visions, quatrains. This is very simir.” Sylvie felt Casey begin w her biceps and leaned forward on her girlfriend. “The first line is a caution. Prudence is cautionary, and sed sight…I think means that there be two possible realities? I ’t be certain though, because these separate references are so far apart, I know the prophet is talking about the events that I saw, but there are things that Franco skipped over which add substao what he wanted someoo read.”
Upon hearing the words moon and sun, Casey stopped her flirting and grabbed her hand. “Do you think the st two are about us?” Casey swallowed hard and expined what she meant. “Moon and Sun - I think that is you and I. We are already trying to fix the crap An started. Eclipses are nal and it says pair.”
“Don’t fet the word bracers.” Sylvie tapped on her lover’s wrist. “Metal bands, to reform mercury?” Sylvie closed her eyes and tried to recall what little bit of alchemy from her past she’d learned. “When I ced the blood with THC for Vivienne and Faye, I used the i to be sure.” She held up her finger when Casey stood up, “Wait…” Sylvie sighed when Casey left and within a few seds she’d returned with her phone in hand. “Hey! You took ys away without warning and now I am a little sad.” She pyfully shot out her lower lip.
Flig Sylvie’s hair to cause the bows to click, Casey smiled. “Look, this is supposed to be rexing for you. Stressing over the i is not rexing.” She winked, “Besides, I have the answer right here.” She handed Sylvie the phone and resumed her seating. “Happy now, mistress?”
Choosing to not look at Casey, Sylvie tried to speak as snobbish as possible. “Very much so. You shouldn’t have gotten up without my permission anyway, I am entitled to ys when I so desire.” Sylvie read the small s and rolled her moon eyes up. “Right. Mercury bonds with many differeals and ges its position. Question is, whie? I don’t see a hint in this group.”
“What about the other lines? Is that a refereo Shadewraiths?” Casey inquired and took back her phone and then tapped a few times clearly looking for something. “Bracers. Acc to this, they be decorative and protective.” She paused, “Where is the blood magitry? Clearly not written by a vampire.”
Laughing and scratg her ear lightly, Sylvie agreed with her lover. “A vampire entry would be most useful right now. However, I am pretty sure this is pletely about the Shadewraiths and how to close the dain.”
“…made of gold and bonded by zinc then blood of fang,moon and sun embrace, imbue blood..musice more as the demons hover at the door, lost.. fused.fuse and blood used aal bury ring is a door no more it's song fades, it's iron gs.”
Desperate to put all the pieces together, Sylvie fihe st set. “I o be more patient, it would seem.” Without warning, Sylvie stopped talking a pletely still. The fsh vision showed a woman ihirties, under a weathered white cowl, and her eyes with swirling sands looking directly into Sylvie as though they saw one another. Sylvie watched as the woman’s ruby-red lips parted to reveal four pristine fangs just before she spoke.
{ “You’ve learned what the others have not. The sands of time have not clouded your visions, ynifit eye. The others years ago, took the book and misinterpreted it. You see the truth of the words and know the oute.”}
Within her vision Sylvie nodded and replied,
{ “We were never supposed to know about the ring or this door, so while there could have been a good path, the dryods picked the ohat caused the worst. I guess that is what they get for thievery…Vasia Kddopili.”}
The sands in Vasia’s eyes stopped swirling for an instant when she heard her full name for the first time in years.
{“Impressive, Taini Miakoda. Amos picked well. As did you with Casey. There will be time for us to speak ter, you know this. Just know that there are missing pages that were left behind in their inal shelter.”}
Before she could respond, Sylvie felt the stinging of sand swirling around her and the image disappeared. ing out of her trance, Sylvie felt her third eye closing then blinked her full moon irises at Casey. “Hey there honey-bell.” Sylvie fell forward into Casey’s arms tired from the quick ordeal. “I think I just met Amos’s creator..I thought she was long gone.”
“Don’t keep me waiting, apple-bunny. Tell me what happened.” Casey reached over the tub and pulled a bottle of blood for Sylvie to drink. “Take it slow, I know you are hungry.”
Without much fanfare due to how tired she was, Sylvie expined what she’d seen and how they were on the right track for what was necessary to remove the portal. “Vasia retty clear that the book was stolen, and that the tents were never meant to be used to create the doorway.” Using the chopstick, Sylvie went back a few pages and pointed out where the Dryods had misread the text. “Even here, they believed that this was telling them to remove their demon, but it was a warning not to.” She flipped to the back where she saw pages missing. “We have to find the missing pages, and they are likely in some hill or mountaihe dryods first lived.” She flipped back to the st passage, “The bracers…gold and zinc seemingly will burn the mercury and break the ring. Hence ‘door no more’. I don’t quite uand the song reference, perhaps it's with the missing pages.” She id the book down and started to close the front cover when she spotted a list of names. “What in the…Look here.”
Casey turned and looked at the list and how it looked like a one-way family tree plete with boxes over eaame. “Looks like there are four of us, Sylvie.” Smming the cover shut, Casey pulled Sylvie up and slid her hands along Sylvie’s cheeks. “ht is going to be iing, I would prefer our day be…” Casey purred and ran her finger over Sylvie’s lips, before dipping them in the warm water. “There you are.”
Sylvie moved so fast it sloshed the water iub, nearly getting the old tome wet. “Yes, here I am..” She purred.
