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Nature & Nature Magic (Thursday Afternoon, 06/29/2006)

Today's class was meeting in the Preserve, which had been in a reminder e-mail Jenny had ~~*handwavily*~~ sent out.

A number of small tents are set up, and in front of them are are bundles of sage and some handouts.

"As far as I know, we don't have a sauna, so you get tents instead. Please don't light any fires inside the tent, but if you want to set up a campfire outside your tent, feel free. Check out your handouts on totem animals, and let's see if you can meditate and find yours. Or maybe you'll get another vision. Who knows? You can either go it alone or meditate with someone else."

OOC: Lakota Vision Quest Info
Totem Animals
Wiki Totem Info

Mod your own vision/totem animal. Have fun interacting! I, otoh, am about to go to lunch and will be able to do interacty things after that.

Course syllabus and roster. for this workshop.

~~Wait for the OCD!~~ Class is ready to go.

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Tim had brought his wand/sword as an aid. "Hope that's okay." he said to Jenny.

Tim settled himself into one of the tents with all the preparations made, and closed his eyes.

After a while, Tim imagined that the interior of the tent had disapeared. And he found himself instead seated on a moor. He blinked, and looked around. Well this was certainly...

"Mrow." Tim looked down, and saw a black cat looking impassively at him, tail bobbing back and forth lazily.

"Hobson?" he asked.

"I suppose." the cat said. "In a manner of speaking. Maybe. Probably not though."

Tim smirked.

"So where are we going?" Tim asked, following the cat.

"To something you have to face." it said. "Something you've been avoiding."

"I'm not going to like this am I."

"No. But you'll thank me someday. Possibly a long time from now, but someday."

The cat stopped before a low hovel, sitting in the shadow of a hill. It was small, but looked comfortable, and well situated by a stream. The cat looked up at him expectantly, as Tim swallowed hard. He knew this house. He'd last seen it in the Leeside, the place the Fae had been exiled to.

He'd met Hobsons Boggart Uncle Caliban there. And Faust. And his own great uncle Seamus. And it was here he'd been reunited with his father.

"you know what you have to do." The cat said.

tim nodded silently, but didn't move.

"Any chance you're going to go over there sometime this century?"

tim just swallowed again, feeling fear, and a strange pain begin to awaken in his chest. Then there was another pain at his ankle.

"Ouch!" Tim jumped, and glowered at the cat which had just bitten him. The cat gave a cat version of a shrug. "Go."

Tim reluctantly went to the window, and peered in. A good looking blonde woman, and a handsome man were sitting at the table, eating a meal. They looked, very happy.

Tim screwed his eyes shut, and quickly entered the cabin before he had a chance to chicken out.

"hello son." the man at the table said. He was alone now, the cabin was dark, lit only by the light from the window and open door. "You finally made it."

Tim's blood ran cold. He shouldn't be afraid of his father. he should be happy to see him. But he was afraid.

"Hi dad. Where's mom?"

"I would expect right where you left her, at home in New York. What you saw through the window was a memory."

"A memory? Who's memory?"

"Yours. Mine. Both of ours. You remember, that was the night before I left. The last time you remember seeing your mother and I."

"yeah." Tim said heavily. "I remember." He also notced what his father had said. Not, when he was taken, or, when he'd disapeared. When he'd left. "And now here we are."

His father's expression turned regretfull. "I can never apologize enough." he said. "Especially now."

Tim's chest hurt. "What do you mean?" he rasped.

Tim's father rose, exposing his chest. And the deep, impossibly, horribly deep, long slashes across his chest. He wasn't just bleeding, blood was pouring from them.

Tim staggered back, his hand going to his own chest, and coming away wet. He choked as blood poured from hsi mouth, and he saw matching wounds on his own chest. He looked up at his father in horror.

His father closed the distance between them and grabbed his shoulders. "It's not time for you to remember this son. You're here to learn that no matter where I am, I'm with you. I'm a part of you. that's why your wand is a sword. It was my sword. And remember, what you freely give for love, you can never regret."

Tim's eyes snapped open, one hand clutching his chest, and the other the hilt of his sword. The vision was fading except for a few things, the cat, talking to his father, and feeling, oddly comfortable in thinking about him, which he hadn't been before.

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