Witches and Dogs

A Plan Set in Motion
Somewhere on the outskirts of the Norwegian town of Lillehammer; a woman stepped out of the empty air, transported across the planes by the mysterious leader of the Coven. It was winter, and dunes of snow lay around the area, were she not a soul, she might well have frozen to death in this weather were she unable to find shelter.

In the distance she could see the lights of homes, centered on the shores of Mjøsa, the countries largest lake. Megumi thought about all those mageless, living out their parasitic existence and she felt anger boil inside her. By the end of the week, she was certain that many of those lights would be gone, and only those with potential would remain.

From within the folds of her cloak the woman pulled a smooth stone, so black that it seemed as though it devoured all light around it. This was an object forged from the lives of the bearers of the Soul Fragments, a Lodestone; it would serve as a lynchpin connecting this world to Home, causing the dimension to seep in and supplant this world gradually.

Uttering a few phrases of protective enchantments and incantations in order to activate the object, Megumi let it hover in mid-air, where a dark blue sheen emanated from the lodestone, as the ground, air and sky directly around and above it began to darken and turn into a spectral representation of the Coven's homeworld.