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An invitation arrived for the woman, with a location and time. It seemed her ritual friend was embracing her true calling yet again. Elizabeth looked at the invitation as she sat in a high back eggshell coloured chair in the living room of the home. The invitation spun between two finger tips as Elizabeth allowed her mind to wander over her calender of events for the date. Nothing much, outside of her usual trip to Honeymead station and a few buildings she needed to investigate to find some items needed for crafting a few items.

That could always wait. The woman's mind exited out of her calender program and entered the text messaging system. I shall see you there. Zodiac had her number and would know who sent it, so the woman did not expand on her thoughts or signed her name as she would have, had it been an email or a letter.

Knowing that the event was going to be in the woods, which made Elizabeth cringe a little in thought of the fae that lived there, she knew most of her wardrobe was not appropriate. Elizabeth frowned and then pondered what was appropriate. She thought of all the things Zodiac wore and while Elizabeth found nothing wrong with the woman's attire, to wear something like that might send a wrong message. It could be insulting. Not something Elizabeth wanted to take part in.

Her mind wandered the internet for dresses, the woman finding many formal dresses and something known as cocktail dresses. Those would not suffice. Finally, something different caught her attention. She clicked on the words and was brought to a new page of dresses varying in colours. Elizabeth bypassed all the white coloured dresses, because while she could buy new dresses on a whim due to hard work of saving her funds, the woman did not like purchasing new things. Unless they were shoes. Clothing was meant to be worn more than once, so going in the woods in an all white dress seemed silly to her.

After many minutes of searching, Elizabeth found a light blue and pink dress that fit her mood at the moment and perhaps summer itself, to her. Elizabeth ordered it and put in an order for a speedier delivery (( 2 days)), for a substantial fee, then ordered a pair of flat, decorative sandals to go with it. Once the order was confirmed, Elizabeth's mind closed off from the internet and the woman went about her nightly business.
The woman used the train system to get her as close as it could to the designated wooded area. When the train dropped her off, the woman closed her eyes and focused on Zodiac. From her clothing, to her talents, down to some of her characteristic traits until Elizabeth could "see" the gypsy woman. Once Elizabeth verified that Zodiac was there and that all was well ((not that she suspected a trap, just that there might be an issue with Fae)), Elizabeth progressed to the wooded areas. Since the dress dragged on the ground, Elizabeth had it bunched at her right side as she walked. One of the disadvantages of being so short and not wanting to ruin a good pair of heels in the woods. Slightly irritating, but again, the woman did not want the dress to last just one evening.

There was a slight problem with tracking Zodiac down once Elizabeth was deep within the woods. Everything looked the same, to the woman. Again, Elizabeth focused on characteristic traits of Zodiac, personality traits and then who Elizabeth believed the woman was. The image of Zodiac was replaced with a colour; violet. No more did the woman focus on the person Zodiac, but the colour of Zodiac and soon a thin, curved line drifted from where Elizabeth stood to where she suspected Zodiac was. The blonde vampiress weaved around trees, climbed over fallen branched and logs until the sound of a musical instrument invaded her ears. A smile grabbed the corners of her lips as she kept walking.

"Zodiac." Elizabeth dipped her head cordially to the woman once the two women were as close to face to face as they could be. "You have outdone yourself. Again." Elizabeth raised her head to take in the full view of everything and to note any new or familiar faces with the gypsy woman. When none were seen, her eyes moved back to the woman. "Was I to bring something? I must admit, I have never been to such a thing..." At the time Elizabeth spoke those words, it was true in her mind and to her, the truth.

(The dress )

Elizabeth listened to what Zodiac said and then smiled. In some sense, she was certain Zodiac had given her a compliment, Elizabeth had to think about it to be certain. Compliments were a strange things these nights; hidden or veiled. While Zodiac may have made the woman abandon some of the things she loved, her mind could do a great many of things with a mere thought. Knowing that if there was trouble and she needed something and her mind could handle it, Elizabeth followed the desires of Zodiac. No shoes, no cellular device and anything else that might pose a potential distraction was discarded. New faces appeared not long after, though some of them were not that new. Elizabeth knew the woman that came first, vaguely. She had met her a year or so ago. The woman that appeared next was someone close to Zodiac, as Elizabeth had seen her once or twice in passing whilst giving away ritual ingredients and the other was a friend; Alexandrea. She had not seen the woman since she was pregnant with a fadebeast. A secret that had remained between the two of them. Elizabeth smiled to see that Alexandrea was here and well, her head dipped in greeting to them all as Zodiac introduced them all properly.

Iris and Zaphyra. That were their names. This time Elizabeth would not forget. "Good evening, everyone." Elizabeth said a few seconds after there was some silence between the group of women. Her eyes rested on Alexandrea, the woman she knew the most of, after Zodiac, as she spoke. "Thank you for inviting me." Elizabeth had only recently decided to expand her knowledge on things such as these, realizing that some rituals were important or required. And with so few wanting to practice such things for whatever reason, Elizabeth made the decision to venture down that path. Through all the bumps and bruises, she was not sorry in her decision to pursue this course. After a few more months of hard work, she would know all it is she needed and wanted to know. At least, so the woman believed. It was something she would discuss with Zodiac later.

Blue orbs went to the cat, Ginny. A being that had become a constant in her life, as had Zodiac. Elizabeth smiled at the thought. Cats, was something the woman adored for some strange reason, even though she had grown up with dogs as a child. And from what she remembered, before the holocaust, dogs had been a stable fixture of sorts then too.

"What is expected of us? Some of us are quite new to things such as this." Elizabeth removed a necklace from around her neck, something that she would give as an offering. The necklace had a silver bird's claw holding a black onyx gem in its clutches, nothing that was too expensive, but held some personal value to it for obvious reasons. "Regardless, I am ready." For some reason, Elizabeth found herself excited. This was a new, different world to her, something that always excited the woman and being she trusted Zodiac and the fact that the woman knew what she was doing, only excited her more.

Iris watched as the women around moved towards one another in exchange of greetings. She was lacking awareness in who was who. Some of the business dealings brought her moments where she became acquainted with a select few who came to the office for contracting her for transportation and delivery needs. Outside that her time was spent much to herself with her ritual alter and she felt out of her league so to speak already as her wide eyes took in each female briefly trying to place where she might have seen each before this gathering. Her arms returned Zodiac's embrace and felt the warmth of her affectionate introduction to those she would hope to know soon.

"Nice to meet each of you." She spoke gently, pressing her lips together firmly when she went quiet.

Slightly rubbing the flesh frame of her mouth together to keep from saying anything that would reveal how new to all of this she truly was did little to hide her nervousness. It was not incredibly high but she was enough so that she knew she appreciated the honor of being in the company she was currently in. She was growing into her place but time and training would see to it that she would earn it. Her eyes and mind were open and she intended to absorb everything around her like a sponge.

Both blonde women looked very familiar and seemed quite comfortable with new faces. Likely they were highly social and if she herself was out more she would recognize them. A hermit was likely more social than she. Especially the one called Alexandrea Quartermaine. Her face was radiant from just sporting a warm engaging smile. It was a delightful one at that and impossible not to smile in return. Elizabeth Naarc of Deux Corbeaux. Now that seemed to ring a bell somewhere. It definitely sounded important and equally worth remembering. Zaphyr she recognized by name as her sire spoke of her often and quite fondly. It was her face that was more familiar than the rest. All in all, it appeared she would be having the pleasure of expanding her self-limited list of those she knew personally in Harper Rock outside business. She was relieved to hear Elizabeth ask what was expected of them. She wasn’t sure if the woman was new to this celebration but Iris was convinced she herself was more so than the rest.

In keeping with that thought, Iris slid her hand so that it disappeared into the tote beneath her grey cape and withdrew the fresh Bluehearts flowers. Only way to be a part of this gathering was to participate with an offering of her own. This offering from her would be about growth, preserving the relationships she had and those she would hopefully gain in the year ahead. Bluehearts reminded her of eternity and promises kept. They represented something old down to the earth and the roots that sustained them, something new as they burst to bloom revealing their centers and value, something plucked and borrowed from a midnight field and in the end so vibrant and blue. She held them gently in her hand and smiled slowly as she did.