Hello! I decided to revisit an old scrapped story and bring it out just in time for Halloween. Well, the end of Halloween, but it’s the thought that counts, right?


In this pseudo-Halloween-based story, Betty Parris tells three young acolytes the story of Charybdis and Scylla, mythological monsters who are more than what Homer previously chronicled.


This story features the debut of three trainee/rookie/freshman witches: Angelina Barton, Elizabeth “Birdie” Cannary and Olivia Rámon. They’ve existed in-concept for a while, and did appear in since-scrapped stories, including the original version of this one. They’re meant to be a vehicle to view what it’s like to train as a witch, featuring my interpretation of the Sisters of Salem’s schools of magic.

-Birdie Cannary: the oldest of the three at twenty-eight, Birdie’s had a rough life. Born into poverty, the Creole woman was practically forced to join a gang at a young age in order to survive the streets of New Orleans. Years later, her gang her gang tried to rob the Louisiana branch of the Sisters of Salem, which ended poorly. Unlike her “friends”, Birdie was spared death because the leader of the witches, the VooDoo priestess Eva Longmoor, sensed the woman’s magical talent and decided to give her a chance.

-Olivia Rámon: a Mexican woman who was recruited at the age of twenty-five. Before she was a Sister of Salem, Olivia worked as an IT specialist in Guadalajara, a job she greatly detested. After a chance meeting with Beatríz de la Paz, a Mexican witch who specialized in artificial constructs, Rámon found herself thrust into the exciting world of magic.

-Angelina Barton: the youngest of the trio at twenty years of age. A medical school dropout, Angelina thought her life was doomed to be miserable when she was discovered by the wiccan healer Valérie McLaren while working at a fast food joint. Barton jumped at the opportunity to restart her life, aspiring to become the healer she knew she was always destined to become.


I do want to feature these three in more stories, but unfortunately the ones I came up with are...well, boring. No vore. No excitement. Lots of worldbuilding though. Gotta work on that.


As for Hecate’s Embers...I’m surprised how easy everything came together for them. They’re not fleshed out, at all, nor will they be anytime soon. I just needed a name for a Mediterranean-based group and thought of the Goddess Hecate (who I was gonna make a recurring character in another project). Circe being the leader was perfect; she was a witch, after all. Calypso and Helen (of Troy) were also easy picks for members, but I didn’t have anything for them appearance-wise, plus the story I felt had enough characters so I didn’t pursue them. And as my story implies, their primary enemies are sirens not succubi, though that doesn’t mean they don’t fight succubi & nymphs, too.


Note: this interpretation of Betty Parris, as well as Abigail Williams & the Sisters of Salem organization, plus the characters of Hip, Amber, Lien, Silk and Satin were created by the wonderful HipHugger https://aryion.com/g4/user/HipHugger. Used with permission.

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