Nocturnal tales

 

Spectral creatures.

Star bound.

Digital painting, acrylic, merged.

Not sure what to title this.

Will write more when I have the time!

xxx

Initiates

Initiates

For Specters and Dreams.

Digital painting/illustration/collage.

"My name is Tabitha and today I turned seven years old. My older sisters and I live with our grandmother in a little town called Rye, which is in Sussex, England. Our garden goes all the way down to the water, and we have lived here all of our lives.

Today, my grandmother gave me a golden key which I am to wear around my neck like a pendant. It is very old and quite heavy, but I like it. My sister Cally told me that very old things, especially keys, are sometimes haunted, but my grandmother told her to shut up. Cally believes that everything in the world is haunted, it's all she ever talks about. Grandmother said that my key is lucky, and not haunted at all, and that it has been in our family for over a hundred years! Cally doesn't own anything this old, which is probably why she got mean about it. I'm going to sleep with it hidden beneath my pillow tonight and every single night from now onwards.

My oldest sister Lucy knows about magic. She wears a bracelet of magic skulls that nobody else can touch but her. She can talk to animals and always knows when it is going to rain. Lucy likes the rain, but her favourite weather is thunder. It makes things happen, she says. Cally said that thunder was made by angry ghosts and the sound was the sound of them roaring. I think she read it somewhere, so she doesn't really know it for herself. Reading things is different to knowing them yourself. Today it didn't thunder, but there was a lot of mist before lunch time. My sisters and I performed a ritual, which Lucy says is the way to give things special meaning. Lucy knows how to get secrets out of things. Things that don't usually talk, like trees, stones and animals. Lucy says there is power in numbers and birthdays, and that seven is a 'significant' number. I don't know what she means, but I like it. For my birthday, Lucy made a ritual and gave me an important book. I am not supposed to talk about the ritual or the book because it is a secret."

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