Prologue
Willow sat in her room, legs crossed and hands on her knees. All around her, candles burned, as a bowl in the center burned incense and herbs. She was meditating. She had her eyes closed, focusing on the task at hand. Willow was looking for the cure to her brother's curse.
"Help me cure my brother, show me the way," she chanted.
As the wind began to blow harder, the curtains in her large bedroom began to flap fiercely, and images appeared in Willow's head. She saw herself flying through a blue sky filled with clouds, before zooming down on a scene below. As she came closer to the ground, she saw a town. A brick building. A girl with golden hair. A place with lots of books.
A Library, thought Willow.
Willow could hear voices all around her, speaking to her, as if she were supposed to be able to understand. But it seemed the more she tried to discern one from another, the more scrambled the voices became. The wind that had been blowing so fierce before was now beginning to die down. Willow could feel herself being pulled back from the library. Her view became wider, almost like those shots NASA uses to show you the planet Earth from space.
The curtains were now flowing gently as the sweet breeze returned. But how does a library help my brother? Willow thought as her breath returned to normal. As she opened her eyes, she heard one word whispered lightly through the breeze. "Summer".