Erica made it back to the shore with a little shiver, both from the cold and the finality of her act. According to the Madrina, the spell would take about a day to act, and therefore she had been instructed to keep her mind "pure" and not retreat to those bittersweet memories of her ex-lover. She thought for sure she could do just that, and do so with ease. Yet, Erica found herself drifting back to those lovely, lazy days when she and "Nico" had been here, entwined together on the hammock beneath the palmetto trees, molded together in the big gauzy bed, and meshed together in the garden hot tub... Stop! Alto! Now she had to wipe her mental slate clean before such snatches of bliss not only resurfaced but rekindled her feelings for the man she thought she knew...and loved.
A dark form m
