Brigid & Morgain: There was a knock at the door, Diedre jumped and looked up guiltily from the parchment that lay in the flickering glow of the candle beside her.The knocking continued, a steady ban banging against her door that made her heart falter every time she heard it. Licking her lips nervously she gathered up the parchment, quill, and ink and hid them under the false board near the hearth.Just becouse the filthy bigots had stopped slaughtering woman on the whim of some of their brats, didn't mean that the respite would last long. Straightening she dusted her hands along the skirt of her dress and walked to the door. Pressing her ear against the age roughened wood Diedre called out, "Who is it?" a voice muffled and amused and snswered, "It's Jack.Open the door doll, i'm freazing my broomstick off out here." Chuckling despite herself Diedre opened the door, clutching her shawl close around her to protect against most of the cold. With wide eyes she asked " What broomstick, after you screamed like a girl when you saw that mouse i wasn't sure if you still had one." As the man duked under the door frame so he would crack a hole in his head, he said, his voice full of wounded pride, "That was hurtful Dye." She grinned, dark eyes sparkling and red hair whipping across her pale face, " Come in come in. It's to cold out to argue with you about the size of your," she stuck a toungue in her cheeck and looked him up and down, "Magical equipment." Laughing he pushed her forward and kicked the door closed with one snow covered boot. " Don't be such a b-" he paused. Looking at him curiously Diedre opened her mouth. Jack shook his head violently grabbed her by the arm, went over to her small table, and extingushed her only light. Leaning over her and putting his lips so close to her ear that she fought not to giggle, he said " They're outside. They've been folowing me ever since I left home to see you. I didn't fight them yet becouse there's to many of them and i'll need your help to hold them off." She could see that his eyes were to wide, to glazed, even in the dark. " If I help you they'll know i'm a witch too. What will happen to me then." He grabbed her by the shoulders, "You'll come with me. We'll go to Aries." She looked at what she thought was his face and scowled, " Aries is a constalation. Have you been using that gross smelling crop to smoke in your pipe again. Becouse just between me and you i think that stuff makes you a little-" he was shaking his head impaitently.She stopped talking as he pulled her along until she had her back in a corner and he was blocking her with his body, "Aries is a city-" "What type of city? This isn't another one of your wh_re town agin is it -" "God no!" he sounded disgusted by the very idea,"Aries...it's a place where. Where they won't hang you if you happen to be a little on the odd side." Diedre shrieked as her window exploded in a shower of glass and flame."Or burn you now that i think about it. What do you say baby girl? Come with me." She stared numbly at the torch and jumped as another could be heard flying through the upstairs window. She could hear them now. Curses, screams, crying, a mob. And it sounded as if they had already caught a few other woman befor they had gotten to her. Nodding she looked up at him. His handsome face was bathed in the warm glow of the fire that was quickly spreading across her floor. "yes, yes, i'll go but only if we take whoever they have crying outside." His only response was a grin and his teeth flashed brightly in the near dark,"Great love.Fine with me." and then jack began to glow. A deep purple pulsing that rolled off his skin and rose to grow ever larger. Her own power answered and her body began to throb with a aching blood red heat. He grinned at her again and his teeth were long and sharp, and his cheekbones stood out. And his eyes glowed bright,wickedly green and so full of power that it took her breath away. He held out a hand "Let's play baby,i'ts been so long since we played together. Let's go have some fun."