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Emily crossed her arms as Quinn and her little girlfriend began talking about... God knows what. Something about dying in combat honorably and Emily couldn't help but roll her eyes. Quinn's supposed to be a bit slow on the draw, but she was talking like some Viking knight or something right now... Has a screw loose or two. Though, she couldn't help but snicker at the irony of Quinn proclaiming that she'll pay more attention but doesn't pay any attention to what their glorious leader was talking about at all. For once Maya echoed her thoughts when she told Quinn to shut the fuck up. She couldn't help but chuckle... and she couldn't help but stir the pot just a [i]little[/i].

"Quinn, I think you need a wrench," Emily chuckled, "Because you got a screw loose."

"That's enough," Claudette stepped in to defend Quinn.

[quote=Mariah][color=#F3128D]"--Yea, right, why don't yall just blackmail Blake into gettin' us one of them abandoned warehouses or some shit instead of us goin' to the Meth-head-serial-killer-y woods for practice? Just an idea. But whatever I'll go with yall-- oh and I'm Mariah, by the way."[/color][/quote]

"But, we're [i]witches,[/i]" Emily answered with a wry grin on her face. "What kind of witch goes to a warehouse to train?" Emily shrugged. She was fully behind the idea of training because she still needs to get off her ass and get a better grasp of her brand new abstraction. She stuck her hand out and created the glowing green tethers that came out of her fingertips and dangled in the air for a few moments. Emily then retracted them and wondered what [i]else[/i] she can do with them.

"What we [i]need[/i] to do is hit up Mr. Schmidt for some stronger liquor," Madison said before she took another swig of the wine. This fucking rich people ass wine didn't do shit to somebody who drinks stronger shit on the daily. She wiped her mouth as she looked at Claud.... and then decided to put the bottle down. She was fine with training but she was more than certain nobody else would train with her if she was drunk.

Her eyes drifted towards Lyss for a second as she realized that chick was [i]oddly[/i] quiet. There was still that thought, that feeling, that [i]impression[/i] that there is still something that Lyss is hiding from Madison and the others (but mostly Madison). Even if Lyss spilled her heart out and told them [i]all[/i] her secrets, Madison probably wouldn't buy it and assume that she's still hiding something. All this talk about Annabelle, Saul, and the DENS got her worried. Personally, the Coven should just leave Tampa but they still had work to be done... and she had the feeling that whatever was going on in this ratty ass state would follow them.

[quote=Maya][color=FireBrick]“But, what are your plans for this training? Just go there and use them? It’s pointless if we don’t have any idea how to practice.”[/color][/quote]

"Montage." Emily flatly said with a shrug.

"Oh, I have [i]something[/i] in mind," Claudette answered with a warming smile. She didn't want to spoil it because knowing the Coven [i]somebody[/i] would cheat.

[quote=Kara][color=brown]”That could be a good idea. I’ve been... ”training” with my stuff for around a year now, but I don’t understand the supernatural things you guys do. Maybe we could learn from each other?”[/color][/quote]

"If you want to learn from somebody your ass is in the wrong place," Madison muttered to herself that was likely drowned out by the Coven chattering. She couldn't help but roll her eyes.

"Of course we can," Naturally Claudette was the first to answer... though she noted that Kara didn't introduce. "This is Kara, the newest member of our little Coven..."

[i]"Joy."[/i] Emily said as she looked at the girl... she said that she didn't know anything about the supernatural. Well, hardly anyone did.

[quote=Kara][color=brown]” Claudette told me about your troubles, just know, I’m not the FBI."[/color][/quote]

"Sounds like something the fuckin' FBI would say," Madison said with a chuckle.

"I know right?" Emily added on, laughing.

"[i]Girls[/i]." Claudette sharply shut them up.

She saw that the entire Coven was behind (or close to being behind) her plan to train. Even if some of them didn't have abstractions that could necessarily be trained. However, the point of this exercise was to help prepare them for future engagements with the Outsider and, while she prayed that Annabelle was one big hoax, Annabelle Heart. Better safe than sorry. What's the worst that could go wrong?

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The Coven went out east towards Seffner and found a nice good spot in the middle of the woods. Fortunately, due to the whole "Annabelle Heart" nonsense, everyone was staying indoors and trying to avoid places like the woods. Part of Claudette wondered if this was just the calm before the storm. The clouds that were previously overhead were gone and replaced with sunny skies, Claudette wondered if they merely left the clouds behind or they moved on. She sighed as she watched the Coven assemble in the center of the field and stepped out of Madison's car and walked around to the back of the car.

"What's she doing?" Emily asked as she crossed her arms and watched Claudette as she reached in the back of the vehicle and walked up carrying a [url=https://i.imgur.com/nCJTGzw.jpg]field flag[/url] over her shoulder.

"Alright," Claudette began her explanation. "My idea for training today shall be a simple... capture the flag. I want everyone to split up into two teams, each with their leader, and I want everyone to, well, get the flag-" 

Emily stuck her hand out towards the flag and her tethers quickly extended and yanked the flag out of Claudette's hand. She smiled as she triumphantly raised the flag into the air. "Look at me, I won."

Claudette facepalmed and shook her head.

"... Using their abstractions. Except in a way that's not lethal, or harmful, or painful..." It was sad that she [i]had[/i] to say this. She looked at everyone as she just said, "You know what, just be gentle as possible. I'm going to let you all decide."