Title: Legacy
Summary: Millie Reminisces
Rating: G
Words: 100
The Millie books have bent spines and dog-eared pages. Classmates had borrowed them constantly - lending, swapping, pressing flowers between the title-pages…
They have not gathered dust, there being heavy preserving charms upon the Library, but books gather age like old women: unfashionable clothes don plain illustrations; living colours are muted and grey when compared to the latest inks.
Here they lie, alone, forlorn, unremarkable.
Julia muttered something about old-fashioned characters without magic; Janet had looked puzzled, as though they were three hundred years old, rather than thirty.
Millie takes them back; Christopher sees them on the dresser, and smiles.