The Move -- Notice of Intended Relocation
The Snake Sisters:
Blenheim, Bridie, and Berna
The Snake Sisters (or The Silken Coil, as the villagers call them behind their backs)
No one knows if they were born minutes apart or centuries adrift, but they share a single silence, a sharp glance, and a deep understanding of when to speak -- and when not to. They inhabit the old chapel manse up the hill, where time folds differently and no clock ever chimes twice the same way.
They each walk alone but dream together.
Names: Blenheim (the youngest in manner, oldest in gaze), Bridie (the walker of thresholds), and Berna (the ledger-keeper of lost causes)
Occupation: Temporal Seamstresses & Custodians of the Unseen
(They accept no visitors, but sometimes a suit or sorrow is left hanging on their fence.)
Zodiac Note: Snake spirits, born under curling skies and veiled stars. Known for insight, secrecy, poetic logic, and uncanny timing.
Traits of the Snake mirrored in them:
Blenheim: the intuitive visionary, connected to prophecy and dreams (the “dreamer snake")
Bridie: the elegant strategist, steps ahead of fate, mistress of symbolic acts (the “ritual snake")
Berna: the one who remembers, holds oral histories and time-loops in her notebooks (the “record-keeper snake")
They speak in riddles when pressed, brew teas with precise purpose, and stitch omens into lace or sleeve linings. Their pockets hold nothing and everything: petals, pages, salt, and watches that never tick.
The Snake Sisters are known to appear where time frays -- births, deaths, thunder, and eclipses. Their motto, though whispered, is widely feared:
“We intervene when the future forgets itself."