Not a happy muscle in her face as she entered the cursed lands. They gave her the bumps, but they felt rather familiar to her dismay. The familiarity of the only demonic person she had met in quite some time, as compared to a simple human with an unholy magic. However, the victorian maiden sought another source. Long in her travels, she held myths and rituals that had been passed through time, said to be false profit that was just made up to instill fear and uneasiness in others. Something to help explain the unexplainable, but in current times was much more clear. Though, among such things was one never to be proven to be false, nor truthful in being able to work. The story there of a demon whom could grant wishes beyond humans reasons, but their costs were none too cheap either. Equivalent exchange some would call it, but there always seemed to be a bigger benefit to the contractor than to the one begging to it.
Entering the old Sombras manor, she expected there to be some sort of spectral being or beings around. Room after room, she peeked in at the empty, yet wide open doors before coming to one large master bedroom. The room was lavishly refurbished to a normal setting, though this was her own doing. After all, she had taken trips back and forth for periods at a time to set this up, so sleeping in a cobweb and dust filled bed. Taking impatient steps now, the blood mage stepped up to a book case and opened a secret entrance by pulling on a book amongst others. She'd take stride descending the case until she'd happen upon her set up of a ritual, according to 300 year old documents that is. Who knew if this would even work, but it was worth a try. Everything was in place, and with a dagger in hand, Isabella would begin reading the words from her old parchments and slowly cutting her hand, black blood dripping onto the ritualistic summoning on the ground and finishing it up. Her wound would quickly heal up and after a moment and a sigh, she'd shrug and head towards the staircase to head home. It obviously was a false ritual that finally had it's results proven.
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