C-TWT-004
Barista: Jericho Myerscough
Date: Feb-2-2020
Receipt: C-TWT-004
Subject: Witches
I didn’t care to speak much during our little meeting with Allison █████. Didn’t sit, didn’t blink more than I had to. Just kept my eyes on the roots and my feet near the door. There’s a rule I picked up young: don’t trust a █████ whose smile makes you feel like you’ve already agreed to something. Bloody lot of them are all fixated on contracts, loopholes, and agreements. Gives us warlock types a bad name.
Gets messy, doesn’t it? █████████, ████████, ███████, ██████, █████████████, ████████, all just a lineup of idiot mortals thinking they’re hot shit.
█████████, they’re the real deal. Like my Nikki was. Brilliant. Terrible. Never needed a ██████. She was a force all of her own. ████████, second best far as I reckon. We get a bit of help from higher up natural forces of ███████ energy. ██████ steal their powers from ████, for the most part. █████████████ and ████████ are the same thing just depending how much their source of █████ cares about ‘em… or cares about abusing ‘em.
Then there’s bloody bleeding ███████.
Like ████████ they make their pacts and their contracts but they can’t communicate with the older forces, so they settle for the more ego driven middle managers, usually the ███████████████… but I don’t know who Allison █████ gets her powers from. Old █████, that much I know. Tastes like peat and pennies. ███ shit. The kind that doesn’t ask permission. I’ve dealt with ███████ before. Flipside blood ███████, █████████████████████, even one poor bastard who made a █████████ out of his own heart. But Otherworldly ███████? They’re different. Maybe they don’t lean on pacts. Maybe their own legend is their contract.
So yeah, I kept my distance. Let Jean-Marc and Jenni play diplomat.
Me? I just watched.
I saw the trees twitch when █████ got angry. I saw how she looked at Eoin, like he was a lost keepsake and not her flesh and blood kin. And I definitely saw her eyes when she sniffed at Julia. The kind of recognition that doesn’t come from memory. Comes from Myth.
If we’re sticking around ██████, I’ll keep playing along. Have to. But I won’t pretend that Allison █████ isn’t dangerous. Or that we aren’t being watched. Heavily.
Decaffeinate Receipt
“Magicians, Warlocks, Witches, Augurs, Practitioners, and Cultists of the Coffee Trade.”
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