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.
Magic in any form must be fed. The summoning spell of the fertility ritual still lingered, waiting to feed and be fed. Hungering for more then genteel posturing of book chanted spells that had awaken it from winter sleep.
As the women leaned back from each other to look at the other's beauty, found a chain of glittering smoke, bound to misty collars around their arching necks, binding them to each other. For a moment they touched the cold smoke and marveled how it linked them together. But the cold mist burned them, a fire made of lust. Caressing it as if it were apart of their soft and wanton bodies, the women were far from being frightened by the spectral chain. It only fed their passion more.
The brunette ripped her hands from her lover's breast and reached the spot between her legs where the yellow fire centered. Thrusting up, she screamed her ecstasy as the girls fingers found her hidden flesh, rubbing searching, entering the empty space that yearned. She thrust her hips around in a wild joyful dance, her hair flowing in the wind, then grabbed the invading hand and bent to take the curious fingers into her mouth, licking sucking her own honey from it but only for a second before she pushed it back inside her spread pussy.
The brunette lay back with her naked lovers kneeling between her wide-open knees. The blonde now saw the soft damp black fur, but she could not bend far enough from the short chain binding her to touch it with her hungry mouth.