When they stood in front of the library and tried pushing the doors open (and afterwards pulling the doors open), they noticed they were locked. The group now tried several popular opening spells but nothing happened. The huge doors didn’t even creak.
They concluded that there had to be a key somewhere and it had to be in their reach. Everyone was searching all over the place when suddenly Crumble started wildly attacking Stella’s bag by jumping at it and boxing it with his paws. “HEY! What’s that for now?!”, she shouted at him and now he started meowing. Stella had put some cat food in the bag for moments like this since Crumble probably was hungry. She opened the bag and searched for it, moving her fingers over something large and metallic in the middle of the bag. Stella pulled it up and held the key in her hand! How had it gotten in her bag? This was all very weird.
Everyone was happy when they saw it fit perfectly and the giant wooden doors slowly swung open, revealing large floors lit by magical candles (which wouldn’t move with the wind and were not dangerous to a place with so many books – this kind of candles is perfect for a Christmas tree by the way).
Stella put the key into her bag again just to make sure and carefully made the first steps into the impressive white building.

The group decided that Stella should be the one imagining her library as it had mainly been her idea to get here. She took Crumble on her arms, the other two laid their hands on her shoulders and she walked through the door.
They found themselves on a green island and could already see the large white building of the library shining in the sunlight. It was so bright the eyes started to hurt after a while so they quickly walked towards it on the long stone road. Stella let Crumble walk freely again and he happily jumped through the grass near the way. The weather here was even better than it had been before and it was hard to believe Stella had created all this only with her imagination and it would have looked different from somebody else. When they had almost reached the library, they discovered a small building in front of it which turned out to be a little souvenir shop with “I love the White Library” hats, shirts and bags, postcards and miniature magicians. Jenna giggled and looked at Stella but she seemed to be surprised as well. From the outside, she had imagined the library like this, but where did the little shop come from? Had her thoughts gone wild? She started to worry but then pushed those feelings away. It was definitely a nice idea and she decided to buy herself one of those magicians later, plus maybe one or two postcards.

In fact, ‘nothing’ was wrong. There was a door standing about 100 meters away from the group, yet it seemed to lead to nothing! Just an open door standing on the island. The first people walked through the door but didn’t come out at the other side, they vanished! Jenna, Crumble and Stella made big eyes.
“This is one thing magicians and other people travelling here are not allowed to tell others when they come back. And another reason why I couldn’t let you and Crumble get here back then. You wouldn’t have known what to do.”, Clemens explained to Stella. ” So how do others know that when they come here for the first time?”, Jenna asked. “They probably have to have a teacher or friend with them, I don’t think there’s another possibility.”
“So what do we do to get to the library?”, Stella wondered. “Well. You have to imagine the library while stepping through the door and you will find it exactly the way you imagined it. The problem is that we are a group and everyone probably thinks of it a bit different. If we all imagined it and walked through it just like this, we would all end up separated. That’s why we will choose one of us to do the imagining job, hold hands to stay connected and then everything will be fine.”
Now Stella knew what she had found odd about the magic school class she had seen walk through the door: they had all been holding hands!

The tickets were for the first flight on Saturday morning and they were all very excited. Last time Stella and Crumble had only been able to visit the entrance hall but now they saw the flying whales close up for the first time: those were impressively giant and intensively magical creatures, being able to fly as light as a bird due to their magical abilities. Each whale offered space for about 20 people on its back and they built a formation of 7 whales per ‘whaleplane’. Even though one way took as long as announced (about two hours), there was nothing boring here because you could FEEL the flying as if you were the whale itself.
Stella, Crumble and Jenna were totally amazed and didn’t want to get off when they had finally reached the Illusion Islands in the sky. This was the place they would find the Library of Magic and yet when they looked around there was basically nothing to be seen except for a rather flat landscape with some trees and much grass and bushes. So what? Nothing seemed to be here!