"You would think I would have left those tomes alone after the first time Jace caught me with one in my room. But of course not." I muttered as I stared at the portal glowing in front of me. Near the far back wall and closest to the tomes that Jace had warned me not to even touch let alone read I stared at the portal with narrowed eyes.
"Even though it is a nice color I'd better figure out how I did it and close it. Before Jace finds out." I added, my eyes moving back to the tome resting in my hands. "I don't want to have him lecturing me again. He can be kind of scary when he's angry with me."
Scanning the page I found a sentence that looked interesting and with a small smile I began to recite the words written there not really knowing what I was doing. Which proved a problem for me as the portal started to flash and I swallowed, my words cut off as someone let out a loud yell.
Noticing that the sound wasn't coming from the room around me but somewhere inside the portal which seemed to have grown larger since I had accidentally summoned it. "Is there someone..." I began when the portal suddenly convulsed and with another much louder yell, more like a shriek of surprise really, someone shot out of it. At that same moment I made the mistake of leaning forward where I got a glimpse of someone in robes and a pointed hat who then slammed into me and we fell to the floor. I grimaced at the weight now lying across my lap, keeping me pinned to the floor of the library.
Up close I found a red-haired man with a somewhat shabby beard and with two blue eyes that were currently staring into mine. His eyes darted around the room and I began to think of him more like an elk startled by an Izzet lab explosion than a man who looked like he was in his early thirties wearing what appeared to be a robe. Or maybe it was his pjamas.
"There. Well that was exciting but not what I meant to do." I finally admitted as a way to break the silence, barely noticing as the portal uttered a loud burp before it shrank to the size of the tome now lying upside down and forgotten on the floor. Before I could even make an attempt to climb to my feet the portal shrank, expelling something that missed hitting my face if I hadn't ducked before it rolled across the floor. I let out a groan as the portal finally vanished already wondering what excuse I could give Jace to explain the new visitor to the Ravnican library.
Until the bizarrely-dressed man currently keeping me from climbing from the floor let out a distinct groan of their own and I slowly blinked, the hood of my cloak keeping my face in shadow as he climbed off my lap the very tip of his hat hanging over his face which did nothing to hide his two very red cheeks.
"You're probably wondering why I brought you here."I started to explain, climbing to my feet before I reached for my hood. The second I pulled it back Ravnica's new arrival blinked back at me, his eyes widening before his mouth did the same. When he let out a very loud scream momentarily leaving me both speechless and slightly impressed by his lung capacity as he turned around intending to run back the way he'd come.
At least that was Rincewind had intended on doing after seeing the ghastly sight of a grinning zombie staring back at him but unfortunately for him he had failed to realize that the portal that had sucked him rather rudely from his bedroom and dumped him onto a zombie of all things had vanished, leaving him to smack rather loudly into the very hard wall the portal had been concealing until a few moments ago.