The coven had closed the circle after the meager flask of overpriced wine and the plates of veggies had been passed around and emptied. In trickles they pulled away from the clearing and campfire that they had used by the granite altar. The final members, a pretty blonde woman and a lovely brunette, good friends, stayed behind to clean up any trace of the ceremony. Putting out the fire and collecting anything inadvertently left behind.
The job was soon done in the flickering light, the two women sat by the dying flames of the fire. They had found a stray joint left by another party in their cleaning and with girlish giggles lit it to pass back and forth between coughing fits.
Curled up in their cloaks against the chill breeze, they watched the flames shrink to embers in the firepit. They talked now, about their lives, about the coven that they were the only unattached members of. Of the High Priest, who even though married, kept a mistress in another town. Of the men they wanted, of the loneliness they shared as their biological clocks were ticking away.
They sat side by side still talking of dreams and hopes, of failure, and goals, the coven and the stiff rituals, this one in the woods had been for the rite of spring, usually a joyous fertility rite, but tonight was just another quiet holiday circle. Until now alone in the dark they had not truly felt anything of the magic that they had been so eager to learn. Until they found their faces so close.
They kissed like a debutante in front of her parents, giggling, shyly. Again curiously, and again. Between them the power was now rising. They drew together, tasting the others lips, throats. The pretty blond opened her cloak on her light blouse and flowing skirt, and her brunette companion pulled the drawstring top of her blouse down to reveal rose pointed soft breasts that she crushed with pleasure in her hands.
When she drew her hands down, pulling the rest of the pale girl's clothes with them, her partner in her turn wrenched her dark flowing robe from her from her to expose her dark tipped full breast and furry mound to the chill night and fastened her mouth to them.
Where the thought came from is not known. But both half dressed women, arose crossed from the circle and mounted the empty altar. Their clothes soon left behind on the ground as they knelt, face to eager face. The dark girl lay back spread out with her pale partner wrapping around her. Their legs spread opened and tangled to each others as they rocked and stretched out on the cold stone. Like cats in rut they crouched and thrust, passion that had been kept so low now fanned to volcanic heat.