we're lying on the moon [charlie, nick, rosie]

[signed_sabrina]

After the party mostly wraps up, the night's hardly over.

The moon might not be full, but there's enough of a moon for their purposes, and Sabrina's located a clearing-- familiar at least to Charlie as somewhere she's taken him before-- for some moon-bathing. A fire doesn't seem quite right, but it's chilly enough that she's set up a charm to make the clearing much more like a late spring, early summer night. Just warm enough to strip down, and just cool enough that pressing up against another warm body feels good, she thinks.

A leather jacket over her dress, and her heels swapped out for something more comfortable, Sabrina lights up the lantern-- this one an orb of light not unlike the moon itself.

"Ready?" she asks, beaming at her people, as they stand at the edge of the woods, the clearing within and a basket at her feet. "Don't worry about the weather. I've got it handled. I mean, where we're going, not all the weather."

That was just a one time thing, she swears.

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[awickedtime]

Anticipation shivers through Nick, in his shoulders and his spine and the palms of his hands. He stays close to them both, to the girls that he loves, to the mortal boy that loves them as they work their way through the woods.

"Almost feels like home," he says, a smile tugging at the corner of his mouth. No-one's going to be hunted through these trees, not tonight, but the air thrums with magic and possibility both .

[forthsofar]

She hasn't spent much time in the woods outside Darrow, but even if she had, Rosie doesn't think she'd be able to find this path again. It's too singular, meant only for the four of them and only for tonight. She focuses on each new reveal in the bend of the path, on the warmth of the people around her as they make their way further and further into the trees, accepting it all as its own bit of magic before the ritual itself starts in earnest.

[teenagerenegade]

Charlie loves the woods. He loves being out of the city, away from the noise and the light. It's not something that he's got that much experience of, growing up in a gated community, as he has, but it's one of the many, many things that's different about his life now that he's in Darrow.

He can almost feel the magic shivering in the air, when he waits, and he listens for it.

[signed_sabrina]

Sabrina takes her time in letting the path unfurl before her, though her feet do not hesitate on the path. The rising energy the walk's creating pulls deliciously at her, that energy so easily raised between them.

When they come to a stop, it's a clearing that happens to be in almost a perfect circle, sloping upwards slightly in a very gentle hill. There's plenty of room, but the spot still seems close and intimate. Sabrina moves to set the lantern at the top of the little hill, where a soft, starry themed blanket has been laid out.

She turns to face the others, and her smile is a little shy. "So, moonbathing. It's... maybe a bit cool still, but I thought that would work for our purposes. I brought some anointing oil, and though I have the traditional bits too, since they really are connected to what the Romans did."

[awickedtime]

It's a much more familiar ritual to Nick than it is to Charlie and Rosie, so Nick stands back and he lets her explain it to them, his hands hanging loosely at his side.

"Doesn't have to have anything to do with the Dark Lord at all," he says. "It can be just something for the four of us."

[forthsofar]

Rosie listens quietly to Sabrina's explanation, Nick's reassurances, all of it only confirming how right the choice--all of her choices, everything that's led her here--is. How much she wants to be here, doing exactly this with all of them. "Then it'll be ours," she says. "Not anyone, or anything, else's."

Rosie looks from Sabrina to Nick and back again, glancing over at Charlie too, as he stands there next to her. "I'm ready."