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.

Jenna looked straight into Mira’s eyes and walked through her to a shelf on the other side. Later, Mira and Stella concluded it must have been similar to the fact that magicians also couldn’t visit other spirits and only felt the basic magic. The day at the library had been very excited and Clemens, Jenna, Crumble and Stella were all very satisfied with what they had found out. Even Crumble had got himself some books for research and laid on one of the pillows as they were very comfy. Everyone was wondering what Clemens might have looked up because he seemed to know everything there was but he kept himself busy with books just as long as the others did. Maybe he just checked out the ‘Sexiest Magicians of the Year – Women’, who knows?
Tonight, Stella also visited Mira in her staff to tell her the way home had been fine and she was happy to meet the girl in the library. When she entered Mira’s world, she couldn’t find the bed on the grass, but a whole little house! It looked like only one room and Mira was happily waving from a front window. Even if I’m not yet happy when coming here, Mira will make sure I’m going home with a smile, Stella thought. She honestly couldn’t have found a better spirit.
They were talking for a while and when Stella left, she saw the girl waving from the window again. Only when Mira turned to the living-room again, she looked at the table and was surprised: there was a miniature magician and a shirt of the White Library!