[thread=20775]OOC Thread[/thread]<br/><br/><span style="font-size: 18px"><b>Sister, Sister</b></span><br/><br/>A blow of freezing wind drew a lock of auburn hair over the girl’s delicate face. The tip touched her chin, and cold droplets of condensed water spread the strands apart and glued them to her cheek, until she slowly brushed them aside. The loud shuffle of tall grass all around her hinted of yet another strong breeze approaching, so she turned her back against the wind and let the long coat she wore protect her against its chill. The grass was healthy green like a midsummer meadow, she stood waist deep in it, yet the wind brought whispers of an early winter, and the sky was black like a late autumn night. Cloudless. Starless. The only light cast upon the flowerless field came from an unmoving, pale moon, too large to be real, too perfect for a figment of imagination.<br/><br/>Had the landscape not been so surreal, she would’ve thought the events prior to her arrival but a dream, and even though she couldn’t remember most of it, the chant, the candles, and the black stone altar were more real to her mind than the dewy leaves of grass that she could touch with her gloved fingertips, the wailing howls of wind that she could hear, and the scent of pure, untainted nature in the air that she inhaled. It had only been minutes, seconds, since this strange world had manifested itself around her, yet the memories of the gloomy basement from mere moments ago were as if ancient history. When she tried to speak, her lips parted with delay, and as she said the words, she was worried they’d come out all wrong and that her sister wouldn’t even understand.<br/><br/>“Are you alright?” Kitty asked, with her gentle British accent. Much to her relief, her voice was as clear as ever; a soft, honeyed voice, although worried and with a hint of unease. She had the same clothes on her that she wore on the evening of that cold October night on the courtyard of her campus, where her mind still thought she was supposed to be on that walk with her twin sister Kate.<div class="messageTextEndMarker"> </div>