<div align="center">(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v226/puppyeyes92/79221359_2017d3e223-1.jpg)</div><br/><strong>Name: </strong>Melinda James<br/><strong>Age</strong>: 24<br/><strong>Type:</strong>Witch<br/><br/>Sultry honey-voiced Lisa has always been ... a little distant. To herself however she is very much aware of the chances of certain intentions manifesting at different times.<br/><br/><div align="center"><strong>Abilities</strong></div><br/>Melinda has three abilities, a mild knack for fathoming snippets of others future by touching them, an aptitude for alchemy, neither of which is overly special as far as witches go, but her third which is, is phenomenal luck. To her it isn't however, to her she "tunes" to feel "it" coming but because she has to focus for a while in order to do so, she doesn't really associate it with clairesentience.  Things just always seem to work out ... somehow, very well actually.<br/><br/>Although some think she has an ability to change her body, it is not an ability, she simply has dabbled more with body shaping spells than her sisters have currently cared to.<br/><br/><div align="center"><strong>Independence</strong></div><br/>Between all three of them money is unlikely to be an issue, as although Chloe could fix games like roulette or keno with telekinesis, with Melinda about there is no need to. Such is Melinda's luck, the only times the girls walk away from a casino with anying less than what they would have are times the three agree to bet wrongly to throw out casino's suspicions they may be fixing something and simply have a fun night.... times, for some reason, everyone gambling seems to have the luckiest night of their life ..<br/><br/><div align="center"><strong>Lifestyle</strong></div><br/>If there is no reason to be elsewhere Melinda is either refining an already impressive stock of potions, or worming herself through books. More than once she has unknowingly saved her sisters after wondering out of second hand book stores with something extremely useful. Over half the sister's library is filled with books gathered by Lisa's hand, including a unique tome detailing the intricacies of shape-shifting.<br/><br/><div align="center"><strong>Sexuality</strong></div><br/>Although Melinda does fall in love with guys, secretly she is bisexual and is ashamed of occasional thoughts of her sisters concerning such.<br/><br/><div align="center"><strong>Alchemy</strong><br/><br/>(http://www.racoma.com/Lab%20Glass.jpg)</div><br/>By some measures her alchemy skills would be the most directly practical of her abilities exploitable by others. Melinda effectively owns one of the more impressive rooms of the house which she has dedicated to potion making. In the room there is literally isn't a place you can turn where neatly ordered vials containing a rainbow of hues doesn't return ones gaze. Unlike most alchemists Mel takes care to ensure the laboratory permeates pleasant scents into other rooms of the house.<br/><br/>Melinda has successfully created dozens of potions spanning a range of uses, and has recently refined one which she flippantly calls "where-were-ing". This potion makes those who smell its sweet fragrance forget what they were doing and be flushed with a state of calmness until its quickly evaporating contents is no more.<br/><br/>In order for her sisters and herself to be immune to its effects however, samples of their tears must be added to early in its making.<br/><br/><div align="center"> <strong>- A where-were-ing vial -</strong><br/><br/>(http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_B9LlfDWKRr4/SEC1xGjfekI/AAAAAAAAAGY/BgbuAUO5PVw/s200/gold+vial.jpg)<br/>(Melinda insists her sisters always carry at least one with them when leaving the house, if they do though is another matter) </div><br/><div align="center">________________________________________________________________________________________</div><br/>Melinda had had enough. Sometimes some days were too much to handle and today seemed more like living in an emotional pressure cooker than living. Torcher in her own house... for good reasons perhaps still silent tears began to well to any who may be looking ... for good reasons. Too many reasons to do anything else and in such a daze Melinda started talking to herself.<br/><br/><strong>"How long have those taking these extreme sides been fighting? If one side could win shouldn't they have found a way to already ?" </strong><br/><br/>With a quiet whisper Melinda spoke a memorized spell which transformed her body into the form of a vampire she saw once in a painting then produced a small mirror and stared at it in a dream like state<br/><br/><strong>"What would a vampire make of this? Do vampires deserve to live ? Are you bad for killing people ? Are people bad for killing cows ? Are we bad for killing you ? What is good when all of life is a tangle of wants impinging on something else's wants ?"</strong><br/><br/><div align="center">(http://i437.photobucket.com/albums/qq95/amanda1472/Vampire_Remake-1.jpg)</div><br/>Her own form mouthed the words back in a different voice a little deeper to her ear, never the less her indulgence of a soliloquy continued.<br/><br/><strong>"Demons, angels, angelic demons, demonic angels, dark angels, fallen ages, enlightened humans, witches, witch hunters, stake burners, what is demonic to demons? What is fresh air to ones knowing only the sea of our own insanity ? Demon lords have been killed before ... all that happens is they are replaced. Demons have won before, until a Light bringer is chosen with a destiny to prevail over them.... then all is well until a new landscape appears of a nature one feels compelled to destroy"</strong><br/><br/>Mel opened her mouth to test her new body and produced fangs instinctively.<br/><br/>H'mm mental note, this body shifting spell she should encourage her other sisters to memorize too ... for no reason other than it helping self reflection, figuratively while being literal. Doing so goes a long way in times like this one. Melinda noticed her speech assumed a noticeable snake-like hiss while talking with vampire teeth fully extracted... made it sound her sound more sage like.<br/><br/>Hmm, her own finger nails didn't grow. Funny that, of all the times she saw vampires change Melinda just assumed claws and teeth extracted  at the same time as if they were linked ... doesn't make sense of course ... after a few careful extensions of her own nails ... she knew for a fact they didn't... it seemed simply vampires choose to do at the same time when they are ready for battle.<br/><br/>Dreamily Melinda put down the mirror and walked down to the basement ... oblivious to those around her.<br/><br/><strong>"If fighting, never fought, if winning, never won, if loosing, never lost, dying never dead, if dead never gone, if gone never for long. Living this is not a life, it is but a choice to be faith-less of anything else. A cycle sustained for reasons which stay the same. A loop we have not found a way out of yet. Both sides have needs to impose values and certain behavior on the other. The trap we have all fallen into is one of being principled"</strong><br/><br/>Melinda blinked at Jacob without bothering with the explanation as the white lighter was used to herself toying with other forms.<br/><br/><strong>"Jacob, unless that scroll tells you something poetic I think it may be this idea which <em>has it.</em> The church has tried to kill us both of, white lighters, witches, demons all of us for if our nature could show something they relate to which is good to them, it implies their own teachings are wrong. <br/><br/>Molly's family was not prepared because the culture we live in doesn't recognize such beings as true. <br/>The demon killed them as much as our culture did. The demon lord caused misery and distress to others as tools to control us because we are a threat to its values, we cause distress to their kin because they have values <br/>we choose to eliminate, before we really even cared to know what they actually are. We could be fighting the symptoms of their frustration while believing its their values ... without knowing it, we ourselves could be tricked by our own ignorance as much as molly's family was. <br/><br/>What if it is an agreement we should seek ? For if we do kill this demon lord, things will be fine for a while but what will replace him will have less weaknesses, it will have learned, it will be harder and harder for us to prevail all the while the amount of innocents which suffer before one succeeds increases.<br/><br/>If we choose our own principals and not believe what we have already ...  we could perhaps find peace, where people can choose which side they want, and the other side respects it, their territory so to speak. <br/>If we win, those that dont share our values have nothing but hope and hopelessness. If they win those that dont share their values have nothing but hope or hopelessness. We could create together perhaps something that enriches both sides. Hopefully all the while all show the world that we indeed do exist and are very much individuals and not the sterotypes their fairy tales speak of, nothing so black and white.<br/><br/>They only think we are black and white when they see things out of hand and of course that is a bias view, like us only seeing humanity when they are at war. Surely such times one would conclude both sides are evil ?<br/><br/>Perhaps we have all been on same side without knowing it? We would be in the eye of the storm trying to juggle this, but perhaps our role is to stay within the storm's eye ... not fight storms themselves." </strong><br/><br/>Melinda blinked, then looked about to those watching her ..