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pretty cheesed off right now. a face to face meeting with Maria has yielded the information that she would charge $900 to burn nine mammoth candles for me over nine days with herself not physically present she said that tomorrow she planned to go out to this seashore village called Salisbury (where I got a weird channeling sort of ASC once... not going to go into that story, though). my negativity will then put in a grapefruit. not sure what would happen to the grapefruit. she reassured me that while this might seem illogical this had nothing to do with logic. and why hadn't her intutive powers informed her that I know all about sympathetic magic? I told her half-jokingly that she shouldn't tell me this unless she wanted me to start making use of her techniques herself. she said she didn't like to keep secrets. fair enough. she has the relationship with her spirits and I don't. she also mentioned that she had gotten born with a caul (which she called a veil).
I feel pretty much how I did with that buisness with L on a lesser note. fuck it. why do I trust people? Maria said that she hadn't known until she consulted with the spirits what they would ask of her. she said at least they did not require a cow or a pig. "do you sacrifice them?", I asked. no, she said.
the weirdest and least comfortable part of our exchange I won't go into as it reflects badly on me, to a degree. or maybe it reflected badly on her.
part of me thinks I should accept the reduced price (she said that I could pay her, if not $900, whatever I could afford), the other part notes how all she did fit smoothly into a shyster's modus operandi. "how much is your life worth?", she asked, literally saying what Landmark has its shills say.
despite it all I have half a mind to call her up and ask her spirits to appear in my dreams. if they can do that then she may have a deal.
I feel pretty much how I did with that buisness with L on a lesser note. fuck it. why do I trust people? Maria said that she hadn't known until she consulted with the spirits what they would ask of her. she said at least they did not require a cow or a pig. "do you sacrifice them?", I asked. no, she said.
the weirdest and least comfortable part of our exchange I won't go into as it reflects badly on me, to a degree. or maybe it reflected badly on her.
part of me thinks I should accept the reduced price (she said that I could pay her, if not $900, whatever I could afford), the other part notes how all she did fit smoothly into a shyster's modus operandi. "how much is your life worth?", she asked, literally saying what Landmark has its shills say.
despite it all I have half a mind to call her up and ask her spirits to appear in my dreams. if they can do that then she may have a deal.