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!

Since Stella got along so well with her staff and the spirit Mira, they decided that Crumble should also get a little magical container and let him choose a gemstone. Contrary to Stella, the cat directly walked towards ‘his’ stone and didn’t want to let it go from then on.
Since it might be difficult for a cat to hold a stone all the time, they got him a collar and a beanie which he was allowed to choose from every morning. Now, each time when Stella meditated and visited Mira, he also kind of slept and probably concentrated on his gemstone’s spirit.

At the end of the next training day, Clemens surprised Stella, Crumble and Jenna with a few pieces of paper that he was waving around. They each drew one and noticed these were tickets – for the Flying Whale Company!

On the next training day, Stella was giving the task to find out what Mira could do for her to improve Stella’s skills or similar. For this, she went to visit her again in the staff and found the girl sitting on a blanket with some fruits and sweets, juice and two glasses. “I am glad you could come”, Mira said, “I prepared something!”
They were talking for a while and Stella wondered if Mira was all alone in the staff. “Oh, I suppose that’s the fate of a spirit in a magical device… Ever since I arrived here, I’ve never met anyone and there was only this little patch of grass with the swing. I’ve been swinging and sleeping most of the time until you appeared.” – “But how long might that have been!?” – “I am not sure, time is not measurable for me like this really…”
At the end of their picknick, Mira suggested she could imitate Stella’s magic from withing the staff, creating echoes of what she did. They tested this idea later that day in fights against Clemens and were pretty successful. When Mira was active, Stella could see the girl standing next to her in her mind, imitating the moves and magic she used. Afterwards, Mira waved her good-bye and went back into the staff.

Before going to bed today, Stella decided to visit her again. When she came to the spot of grass, she saw Mira lying on a bed, reading a book.
Stella looked surprised and thought she was dreaming. After closing her eyes and looking there again, she still saw the same picture. “Oh, hi Stella! I don’t know how or who did this, but after we had finished fighting and I went back here, I found this bed and the nighstand with a few books on it. I can’t believe I’ve never tried books before, they’re awesome! Ah, might be because I never got any before…”