Chapter 3
"What we do with it?" Luz asked, staring at the book that was still lying on the floor
"We'll read it." Eda replied.
"Without me, I do not get into shrinking magic trap or something because of a book again." King grabbed his stuffed bunny and went upstairs, talking to Francois about his new idea of how to take revenge on Piniet.
"Is that really a good idea?" Luz asked, reading note again. "This warning sounds serious. And this book burned your hand."
"I've seen many awful and scary things in my life." Eda said nonchalantly as she held out her hand, causing a book jumped into her hand. "It was rather a cheap trick to scare kids."
The Owl Lady immediately went blazing through the book, flipping the pages this way and that. Whoever wrote that book was weird.
The book was written in the three different old languages. The writing was neat in some places whereas in others, it looked like hieroglyphs. Some words were along the sides of the paper, out of the margin, some of them even upside down. The book had also weird drawings, disturbing pictures, and small pieces of plant and animal glued to some pages.
"The author was probably a paranoid schizophr-" The witch gasped upon landing on a specific page. In the pages of that book was a drawing. The drawing of the owl beast that looks almost identical to Eda's cursed form.
Luz grabbed the corner of the book. "Eda, this looks like t-OW!"
The teenage gasped at the sudden stinging pain in her finger. Blood, vibrant red against her skin, welled in little beads along the length of the paper.
"Why is paper so sharp?" She asked, holding out her bleeding index finger.
The gold-eyed witch adverted her eyes from the big speck of red fluid on Luz's finger to girls' face. She had a tear in his eye when look at cut.
"No more reason to cry like a little baby."
After taking her student's hand in her own, the Owl Lady draw a spell circle around Luz's fingers and made them glow. A bit of the healing magic working fast and then Luz's index finger was good as new.
No one noticed that the drops of Luz's blood shone brightly on the paper for a second and then, as though it was being sucked into the page, vanished. And the sphere of dark glass flickered in creepy way.
"It's a drawing of the owl beast." Luz said. An index finger traced over the two words under the drawing.
"Yeah, but it's only a drawing. There's no usable information. The author probably had the bad luck to meet the owl beast. And it was a memorable moment for him." Eda closed the book, turned it around to study the back cover. The sphere of dark glass with a swirling light inside it didn't seem like a precious thing. "This book is worthless. But we can use it as a cup pad."
Luz chuckled before yaw.
"I think I'll go to bed now." She said, getting out of couch. "If I want to go to school tomorrow I need to get to sleep."
"Or you can drop out of school, and earn your official Bad Girl's Coven hooky badge." Eda said as Luz was halfway up the stairs.
"Nope." The teenage said in a high pitch, "You have a apprentice who actually enjoys school. Good night."
"Good night." The witch said before looked at book. The sphere of glass was a bit brighter than it was a few seconds earlier.
Eda just simply shrugged and put the book in her hair. Unaware of what was about to happen very soon...
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