Mimi liked to think of herself as having three jobs, ‘cause she was awesome like that.  One was her job at the nightclub - not exactly respectable, but legitimate.  Another was her contract work for the supernaturals in town - definitely anything but legitimate, but very profitable.  And third was magic.  Although she wasn’t paid, and no one else even knew about it, Mimi considered the development of new spells as important work.

Of course, experimenting with magic wasn’t always the safest practice.  Hence why she was currently sitting in an abandoned house in the middle of the woods, rather than her apartment.  The spell she’d been working on for the last few days was...touchy, to say the least.   Double-checking that she’d put the right ingredients into the silver bowl she held, Mimi took a deep breath before she began to speak, murmuring the incantation under her breath.  She’d changed a few words around, maybe that would keep it from...

The bowl started to smoke.  Mimi paused, eyes widening for a moment.  She managed to get out the words “Oh, merde,” and throw the bowl away from herself before the whole thing exploded, the noise shaking the entire house, and possibly the entire forest.