“Blessed be, it has been a while Lady Tara.” I had only just stepped through the doors when I heard this greeting echo through the small store. I smile and feel both at home and a little guilty which is a proper feeling for being at home. Lady Raven glides into the room and embraces me in a tense hug. Raven was the closest thing I had to a friend, a kind woman who always did her best to make me feel good to be a witch, a teacher, and just me in general.

I had not seen Raven much since classes had begun, I used to see her once a week and currently it has been a month since I stepped through those doors. Lady Raven was a nice woman but a bit eccentric. She did not like the way novices and new agers would trample through her store to by trinkets and things they read about in Harry Potter. So she did something a bit drastic, she started to limit her inventory to items that only a practitioner of magick could use.

Of course this meant that she would make significant less money but people tried to show there support by volunteering to work at the store. I did that once a week for nearly a year but recently had to cut back.

“So my Lady Tara what do you need today?” I smiled and shifted a little. I needed a few more oils and powders for a cleansing spell I was going to do later on today. Ritual bath of sorts to remove magical residue. I did not know how much I wanted to go into this with Raven since she may insist on reading my aura again and for some reason that bothered me.

“I have a list.” I said and handed it to her with a slight tremble.

“Hmm Lady Tara will be keeping herself busy. How are things, students, roommate, co-workers? Do they still try to crush your spirit, have you been wearing that rose quartz pendant?” I sighed, hated to complain about my life so I simply pulled the pendant our from under my blouse and showed it to her.

“Good good.” She said as she poured powders into small zip lock bags and placed them on the counter. She than put all of this in a bag and I handed her payment. We talked for a few more minutes and than I left.

I stepped out onto the street with my supplies, in a way I was happy to finally have the supplies to perform the spell but at the same time I was nervous because I could feel the air was thick with tension, energies that were all out of line. I did not understand what was going on but it worried me.