---- Seraphine ---- I have been laying here, waiting for my love Galahad to return from marrying Dante and his bride.... but he hasn't returned. He has not let me out of this bedroom since I started to grow old fast all those years ago. I have been like a caged bird. It is only when I know he is definitely not in do I dare step out of my bed and if I get the chance and if I've conserved enough energy, I turn myself into the magic owl I can. I am feeling quite magical now and I so wish to see Dante. In the flick of an eye I become a beautiful screech owl and fly from the window on the breeze. No one expects me to be able to know the layout of the coven... but I wasn't always laid up. I am the the Mother of it.. in my crone years now and supposed dead by most. I fly to the forest. I

