Enfield Claim: 7th-10th September

[brightwitch]

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Yeah, I went there.

Circle Midnight have gone one step too far this time. For almost a year, there has been an uneasy truce between the Redbright Institute and Circle Midnight – in truth, an uneasy truce between Sylvia Redbright and Abigail Widdowson, Mother and Maiden. There is no love lost between the two women, to put it mildly. Abigail nursed an ambition to join the Night Council in order to represent the interests of her people, but with Sylvia in charge that was never going to happen.

And then along came Raymond Harris, Duke of the Islington Nest and self-styled Other Mayor of London, to make an offer that Abigail couldn't refuse. An alliance between witches and vampires and a direct threat to the power of the Night Council.

They're already struggling against the vampires. Sylvia knows that she has to stop this alliance before it can get started, and that gives her the perfect excuse to destroy Circle Midnight once and for all. They've made the first move. Their pact is null and void, and it is for the sake of the city and the safety of its citizens that Sylvia orders her Outreach team to move in and take over Enfield.

Their goals are simple: capture Abigail and key Midnight witches, secure the area, and bring Enfield under the jurisdiction of the Redbright Institute. It's the only way to keep London safe.

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THE COUNTER ATTACK (9TH SEPT)

[brightwitch]

At first it appears that everything is going well. Circle Midnight is crumbling and there's no sign that Islington are bothering to save their new allies.

What Sylvia doesn't expect is for the East End Pack to make a move instead.

[falsify]

Eames doesn't really believe they can make much of a difference, but Connor had approached him with the idea and he is strongly in favour of not giving more land to Redbright. So, here he is, mostly just here to make sure the fae he's brought along don't actually kill any witches. This is already a thin line, best not tip over it.

He spends some time walking with his little gang, scoping out the borough, seeing how this whole thing is going. Redbright is already pretty firmly entrenched, it... Doesn't fill him with a lot of hope for this whole thing, if he's honest.

[iustitiae]

The great thing with how marginalized werewolves are, is that they have a common enemy in basically everyone. So it isn't too hard to round up a small group of werewolves even with his inexperience and "youth" as one of their own. And that, with the fact Eames actually pulled through on this, gives him a much more positive outlook than he was perhaps expecting at the beginning of this. He's been through one failed claim before, and he knows fighting Sylvia's forces doesn't leave a lot of room for any other outcome.

But they hold anyway and counter. It's a attempt that's their attempt, and sometimes with the right push and enough rousing speeches that's at least a start.