Deneb's notebook
Gran sent me a list of instructions and components we’ll need for the ritual that will attempt to exorcise the demon that is currently possessing my mother.
This spell is… way more complicated than anything I’ve ever cast before. Gran said I’ll have to be the one to cast it too, because I’m my mother’s daughter. I can’t help but worry a little about that. She also went on for about a page about how it’d be so much simpler and quicker if we could blood sacrifice a goat as part of the ritual but the other witches talked her out if it, saying it’s bad “optics”, whatever that means.
Gran directed me to find a pouch of faerie dust from a highborn faerie (given willingly, she specified), a pouch of diamond dust, a sealed bottle of red wine that’s at least 50 years old, and worst of all, the demon’s True Name.
I’m going to have to talk to everyone else, I don’t even know where to begin for most of these. I have no idea how in the world I’m going to learn the True Name of a demon… this is really stressing me out.
And, it gets worse. The ritual will only expel the demon, not destroy it. It’ll still be able to jump into another body. Everyone else thinks we should give it a tempting target to possess that we can fight, but I’m worried that could go terribly wrong and I wouldn’t want to sacrifice someone, even for my mother.
If only there was some way to stop it from being able to possess someone… or trick it into going into an inanimate object.