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And so each of your thumbs pressed against wood, pushed your magic forward, and felt a large amount of power flowing out like a broken dam disgorging water. You almost started to feel some fear at how much it was taking from you and the others but after a second or two the pull ceased as lines of blue-silver shot out and connected the symbols, your Magic making a perfect triangle before a fourth line flew down from ‘Brey’s symbol at the vertex down the trunk to the ground.

For a few more seconds the stream of light poured into the earth before cutting out, though the symbols still yet glowed.

“Alright. Kind of cool looking but that took a crap load of energy.”, said a version of you with a dark blue ballcap over a pony tail. “Feel anything break or junk?”, Em asked as you felt dizzy enough you thought the earth was swaying.

“Ah, No-I”, you had begun to say when there was a shout and Aubrey’s arms were around Emmy and your waists while she picked both of you up then leapt away. Right where you three were before there was a maw opening up suddenly, before a column of thin, gnarled roots shot up who’s pale tendrils seemed to writhe like snakes; at the top lay a small, ancient looking chest which the serpent like roots wrapped around and looked like even pierced in places.

Even as you stood and looked on in awe while shouting that you fucking knew it, the roots sealing it shut slithered away as well as just enough on the front to make out words engraved in the perfectly preserved Mahogony:

Here lies the final resting place of the Dark Witch Gormlaith Gaunt as well an Ancient artifact of the House of Gaunt belonging once to her ancestor, Lord Salazar Slytherin.

“Merlin. Something important is in there, I know it. I’m opening it.”, you declared after a quick check to see if it was Cursed as best you could

“Uhg. You aren’t going to take no for an answer, are you? Well, just be careful Pandora.”, Travis spat out while the others just stood amazed. Popped the lid open.

When you didn’t just drop dead or something, your Coven came in close to look inside too.

The inside was mostly filled with coal-black, flaky ashes and-

“Wait those must be-“, the tall Headboy hesitantly began, before Aubrey finished for him.

“Gormlaith’s ashes from when William the Pukwudgie destroyed her to save Isolt, her husband, their kids. Woah,,, Amazing!”

And… sitting right in the center of them was a blackened trinity knot necklace and a rolled-up piece of parchment with a wax seal bearing the Ilvermorny Crest pressed into it.

“It’s her necklace, the one that matched the one her niece inherited from her mom.”, Travis whispered out.

“I had a premonition there was something important here.”, you smugly declared.

“I think-“