Exton

"I am coming little brother", Tori forces the thought past the images that Stoney's mind has allowed to entwine with his call to her. "Almost there." Tori can see the graveyard and the cottage where Stoney has been working on Alise's body. She lands and sprints to the cottage door. Mortuis thankfully had known she would be coming and disarmed the wards for her as well as the others. Tori flung her pack to the side as she bolted through the door, skidding to a stop beside the kneeling Stoney and the body Alise would inhabit. She dropped to her knees beside Stoney, taking his face in her hands she forced him to look her fully in the face. "There's a problem little brother." She waited until she had at least most of his attention.  "Once I do this spell Alise will be in the body forever. Well mostly forever. I dont know if she can die or not. But anyway, she wont be able to come and go from it. I know we all thought at first she would only be able to be in the body for a week at a time but one of my contacts says no. It's permanent. She will however require greater periods of rest. A couple of days at a time to possibly a week in order to keep the body from drying out completely. Is that what she wants? To lose her ability to go unseen around enemies? I need to know before I cast the spell."

When Stoney nodded and said it was what Alise wanted, Tori stood, her face grim. She went to the discarded pack and pulled a wicked still\etto out. The blade was slim and finely crafted. Two ruby red jewels adorned the hilt and firelight glinted off the sharpened steel. Tori laid the blade against her arm, "She's very sure little brother?" Stoney nodded again, his hair falling into his eyes. Tori fished a cup from the pack and slit the flesh on her forearm, dripping the blood into it carefully.

Tori began intoning, "Spiritus vita adveho quod repleo en terra vas. Permissum sanctus spiritus.  Deus repleo en inritus. Anhelo in iam novus vita Anhelo in iam novus vita. Permissum sulum bona et sinu, vena, quod saeta anhelo in novus vita. Concipio is unus quisnam has lost suus via. Concipio is unus quisnam postulo suffragium quod vinculum et unus ut vestri. Permissum et unus reperio pacis quod sileo huic terra vas."

She stepped to the body, and going to her knees once again,  carefully painting the blood with her own fingers across the entire body. She motioned that Stoney should turn the body over so that she could reach the back. Once the whole body had been painted with the blood Tori leand back and finished the prayer. Then she drew the deepest breath she could and leaning over the body blew hard. The heat from her own breath made sweat pop out on her forehead and instantly dry. The body began to glow as Tori heated it hotter and hotter. Three times Tori breathed on the body each time hotter than the time before it. The cottage filled with the heat but Tori went on.

Just when it seemed everything in the cottage  would burst into flame she stopped. Knocking once on the forehead she whispered to Stoney, "Tell Alise to get in the body now. Before it is finished drying." She waited until Stoney told her Alise was in the body and then she began the prayer and heating process again. Once more she indicated that Stoney should turn it over.  And for the third and final time she intoned the prayer and heated the body yet again. This time a chair in the corner did burst into flame. But suddenly Tori sat back on her haunches. It was finished. Alise was now in the body. "It will take some time to cool down brother, a couple of hours I think. You will have to hold off for a little bit on the um... festivities shall we say?" She laughed hoarsely. Her throat hurt from the heat of her own making but it was worth it if her brother was happy. "There's some clothes in the pack for her. So I will leave you now and head back to the Tavern." She gathered her things and flung a scarf around the wound on her arm. It would heal fully when she rested later. She strode to the door. "Be careful with her brother. Dont forget to let her rest for a few hours now and then. She will know when its time. Her skin will begin to get very dry." She closed the door carefully behind her and spreading her wings took to the sky.