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[lady_soulfire]

Soulfire turned off the computer after she had posted the note to all students and staff. She did not use the computer often, but it had its uses. Like when wanting to reach the whole school with one simple message. She pushed the chair back to look at Dayenne, who sat on the couch working on her archery equipment. Some of it had been damaged

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[dayenneshier]

Dayenne looked up from mending her longbow. "You did?" Her face showed she was worried, a concern also reflected in her voice. "Are you sure it's a good idea? I know you had your doubts about it as well and most of these girls are quite flightly, noisy, giggly and often without any ability to concentrate on any subject for longer than five minutes. Those rituals of yours are important to you; is it really alright to cheapen them by inviting others?"

[lady_soulfire]

Soulfire laughed softly. "What makes you think that inviting the staff and students over at the moon rituals and teaching them how to charge themselves with the power of the moon would cheapen it all?" She stood up from the chair and smoothed the front of her dress before she moved to the kitchen to make some tea.

"We've always allowed visitors to come and watch whenever we're holding an esbath. Sometimes they're even allowed at sabbaths. They're only not allowed at the meetings that happen several times in a year. That's for members only. Initiates, priests and priestesses, and the high priests and priestesses."

[dayenneshier]

The woman listened to the explanation given, though her eyes were mainly busy now with following Soulfire's figure. "I didn't know that," she said absently while she gazed at the witch's back. Even though they'd been together for nearly a year, looking at the woman bustle around like that gave Dayenne a warm, fuzzy feeling on the inside.

"You don't really talk much about it, though," she remarked when she suddenly realized that Soulfire never had spoken about her past, what she had done or anything about the group she belonged to. "And what are you? In that... group of yours. What was it again?"

[lady_soulfire]

"It's called a coven, dear," Soulfire replied patiently. "Our coven is dedicated to the power of the moon, or Lady of the Moon. There are different covens, though they should not be confused with the new covens that are created in response to this wave of New Age and other things. They use the same word, they may have the same intentions, but they are not like us."

The witch turned for a moment to smile at Dayenne. It was a smile that was oddly wistful and possessing a wisdom that did not seem to match her youthful appearance. As if she had seen more years than her appearance gave away.

"I am a priestess of the Lady of the Moon," she then said. "There is only one high priest and one high priestess per coven. I could, if I wanted, start my own coven. But..."