Rose & Kat | T1Ep2.7 | The Elements of the Magic Circle

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When she got home, Joan took a sketchbook and a pencil and began drawing the symbol she had seen in her dream. With each stroke, small flashes of memory surfaced in her mind, as though something were guiding her hand and determining the path of the pencil.

With the symbol finally drawn in front of her, she was able to easily identify a few words: “Solis,” “Luna,” “Magicae,” “Aqua,” “Aer,” “Terra,” “Ignis,” “Tempus,” and “Vitae”.

Joan: These words… - she murmured.

She went to get the material she had brought back from the library and began researching, element by element. As she leafed through the photocopied pages, those same words seemed to leap out at her in sequence, almost like little calls for attention, insisting that she notice them.

And yet Joan still couldn’t understand what drew her so strongly to that symbol.

Long after midnight, she was still completely absorbed in the subject. Her phone rang several times, but even that wasn’t enough to pull her away from what, with every passing minute, was turning into a genuine obsession.

Sunday, June 2

Joan spent the night practically sleepless. She hadn’t managed to connect all the elements, but after hours of research and reflection, a few theories had begun to take shape.

One of them was that she possessed some kind of magic and that, through the Sun or the Moon, she could control the remaining six elements. She tried casting a few spells, invoking first the Sun and then the Moon, but nothing happened.

The other theory seemed even more plausible to her. Perhaps, when the Sun or the Moon was at its highest point, it would be possible to draw the magic circle beneath its light and, by placing a representation of each element at the points of the star, bring to life whatever was placed at its centre.

Determined to test the hypothesis, she took a dried plant and drew the magic circle around it. Then she fetched a bowl of water, a jar into which she blew to represent air, made a small mound of earth, took off her watch to symbolise time, and used a torch from her party to represent fire.

She put everything in place and waited.

She waited a little longer.

And nothing happened.

When she received a message from Dianne — “Where are you?” — she finally realised that it was already way past lunchtime.

She quickly cleaned up the mess she had made in the garden, had lunch, and headed to the School Gym, where the girls were already working.

Joan wasn’t going to give up. She wanted to understand both her dreams and the true meaning of that symbol. But, for the time being, she would have to put the mystery aside and help her friends finish the decorations.

She arrived without explanations or elaborate excuses. She simply said that she had lost track of time.

But I knew she was up to something.

Joan had never been able to keep an idea to herself. And she was certainly not usually late. And this past week, it had already happened twice!

With care, Rose

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