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.

using the ledger,

okay,” I thought to the Moon Goddess. “I get the hint. No paper

following the rules. Like stealing. But for a good cause, I 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

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 to pick up the children from school, and then

what floor I needed them to push. I did it myself, and the woman standing in front of the panel looked surprised, but as soon as I moved

blank again.

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wasn’t there. When I was a kid, I’d always been

all, I wasn’t eight

our quarters, I 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

inside pages were of thick paper that had rough-cut edges. Instead of printed words, I saw handwritten

I pulled it out, sure enough, they were the

Celestial, but there was no author. To my shock, as I turned the first page, the words…..moved. They scrambled around and then

like a regular book, making it much

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

book been a witch?

Witches can read

dropped. Did this book just…read my mind and

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