When Clemens took a few weeks vacation, Stella found the time to train / play with Crumble and visit Mira more often. Since Mira was very interested in what was happening outside the staff, Stella showed her photos and told stories about her world. The spirit was thankful for all the images Stella was sending her and they enjoyed picknicks and relaxing times listening to music together. With the time they got to know each other very well and sometimes Stella even heard in her mind what Mira would say in certain situations.
Also, Mira loved little surprises; so whenever Stella found the possibility, she brought her a Kinderüberraschung and hid it in the girl’s house so she would find it later. The spirit was thankful for the sweet gestures Stella showed her.

But now to Stella. She learned how to ‘cover’ her reality in such a way that even if the other person was a magician, it wouldn’t be totally obvious and easy to see through her second, magic layer. In case the other one was a powerful magician, he might still look under the cover though.
Just like everything else, she trained using this even with her eyes shut which was hard because she needed to use her imagination much more. She first had to imagine her real self and then ‘draw’ the new layer above it. With a mirror, she only had to draw the magic. In dangerous situations, you might not always have a mirror though.
There was also something strange these days. In the evening, when she was sitting on the sofa with Crumble, he sometimes seemed to emit a white light. She tried turning off the lamp but then it was totally dark. Turning it on, there was a white glow again. Stella was wondering about this and the cat thought the intense magic training might not have been too good for her mind. He decided she should have more rest, laid on her lap and purred.

Stella became more and more skilled in using magic and that also included illusions. She had mainly just changed her hair or eye color before and even though she got good at that, it wasn’t all that useful. Jenna had grown up with her ‘girl illusion’ which was needed at a certain time of the month (and especially when being outside in the moonlight). She WAS a girl, but sometimes not totally; there might stick out a hairy ear or sharp teeth. Well, you know the common problems of werewolves! Jenna hid these with an illusion fitting to the rest of her body. Crumble didn’t actually need a disguise since a cat wasn’t THAT extraordinary but he learned how to change his fur color and used this to fool the others when he felt like it. On a trip together or on a city evening he would disappear and later on wait for them laying somewhere on a wall looking different so they would walk by him, unsuspectingly and not paying attention. And NOW was the time for Ninja-Crumble to surprise them and look at their funny faces.
Oh yes, being a cat could be much fun! Especially being a magic cat.