She kind of gathered why they hadn't ever crossed paths over the last year. A lot of their old hangouts were a bit dried up from Nadine's attention. "Yeah, while you were gone," she remarked carefully, "I broke it off with Diana and just, you know, if I'm not getting laid I gotta get out of the apartment for some reason. There's a lot of trails out there and I keep busy on my bike or on foot.."

Her voice trailed off after the sarcastic slip of her ex-girlfriend's name. She pictured Diana, a vision of acrid red hair, vixen over webcam as a living, and during the day scoring too much blow. The last Nadine had seen of her had been a psychological shit-storm, cracking wide the bedroom door to catch a rage of enticing music from the computer. Strung up from her own demise made the young redhead swing limply from the ceiling where they had anchored a fetish swing. Diana's throat got caught kinked up in a chain link noose as a new asphyxiation stunt for her viewers. High on dust and foaming from the mouth, Nadine's unannounced entrance had saved her life but brought a halt to their wicked crazy love life.

She choked on her drink when he brought up the word 'voodoo,' giggling into the booze which sent it down the wrong pipe. His change of subject, the joke in his tone brought her back into the soles of her heavy boots. Even with a good amount of heel, she had to avert her eyes higher in order to catch that familiar gaze. "Voodoo? You don't even..." her words spread out a childish grin suddenly. His mention of the witchcraft, religion, and healing class on behalf of Dr. Price brought up a confident little idea which would take advantage of Gabriel's stupor. "His class, you remember the content? Tip of the damn iceberg," Nadine's hand cut the air sharply.

"In fact, that class, and my friend Cassie," she nodded over to a head of braided blonde hair in the living room, "Got me going on a little bit of practical magic." That honey shimmer of mischief flickered over her dark eyes as the music changed into a techno song of peppy proportions.