Chapter 381

Lanie

Instead of opening the book, I clutched it to my chest. I sent up another grateful prayer to the Moon

Goddess.

“And thank you for not losing patience with me,” I added in my head. “For trusting that I can and will always follow you.”

I didn’t think anyone would pay attention to me reading a book. Everyone was doing the same thing.

Since I wasn’t sure what I was going to find, though, I wanted to take the book back to our quarters. I wanted to be able to take better notes than on my phone, too.

The first thing that happened when I stood up was that the book was so heavy I had to use both hands to carry it. And then when I headed toward the desk where the ledger was, I tripped and almost fell over. I barely hung onto the book!

Luckily for my pride, nobody seemed to notice my clumsiness. When I tried again to get to the desk, I stubbed my toe and let out a sharp cry. This time it was much more noticeable that nobody turned to look at

I went still, looking around. Seriously, nobody was looking at me or even seemed to notice I was standing in the aisle, based on how someone nearly ran me over. I had to jump out of the way. They looked back, though, surprised when I muttered, “Excuse you.”

So…I wasn’t invisible.

every time I tried to get that book to the desk so I could check it out using the ledger, something stopped me. Something was shielding me from

okay,” I thought to the Moon Goddess. “I get the

told myself as I carried it out of the library without anyone shouting after me that I should come back and sign it out. Once the door closed silently behind me the book

do anything about the sheer size of it, so I tucked it under my arm and scurried through the hallways and staircases, heading for home. I’d have an hour or so to read it before I had

what floor I needed

blank again.

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into with everyone in the enclave seemingly thinking I wasn’t there. When I was a kid, I’d always been fascinated by the stories about magic cloaks and whatnot…the book in my hand seemed like something of an equivalent.

all, I wasn’t eight

cleared off the heavy wooden table from the children’s books and board games. I found a notepad and several pens, and I settled into the chair with the giant book in front of me. This was it. Was

of thick paper that had rough-cut edges. Instead of printed words, I

tucked inside the other book. When I pulled it out, sure enough,

the book was Celestial, but there was no author. To my shock, as I turned the first page, the words…..moved. They scrambled around and then settled back into place. This time they appeared

a regular book, making it much easier to

though. The pictures in this book moved, too. Kind of like gifs, the illustrations ran on loops. I flipped through the entire book, fascinated by this magic. Had the author of

book been a witch?

Witches can read

dropped. Did this book just…read

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