Modern Day Magic (Theris and LiuLiu)

[Theris]

The old book had had many masters, both young and old, male and female, innocent and corrupt. It had seen it all, and was still there. It was an old book, bound in ancient leather, with cracks along its spine from excessive use. It pages were yellow with age, and the ink upon them a burnt red, smudge in some places. The words found in its depths were ancient, older than Rome, older than the Pharaohs that once ruled Egypt. Though many had possessed the book, none had been able to read it, though that had not stopped them from trying. Its last owner had been driven mad with his need to learn the books secrets, thumbing through its pages every night, cross referencing the letters with some of the oldest languages on the planet. He had found nothing, and now he was gone, his obsession consuming him at the end. And so the book found itself being packaged up, along with a number of other items, and mailed with a note to its next owner. In his maddened state the books last owner had forgotten to change his will, and so rather then being buried with the book, which was what the man had wanted, it was instead being passed on to his relatives.

The note was a simple explanation for what happened, that he had stopped carrying for himself and passed on. As ordered in his will and testament, all his belongings are being distributed to his remaining family. In particular, his book collection was to go to his favorite niece. The box arrived at its destination, and there the book waited, waited to see who would be next to pick it up.

 

[LiuLiu]

Lucy Sullivan was waiting for the mail that was being sent to her as per her uncle’s will. Lucy was always close to her uncle. She felt that Uncle Richard was always a lonely soul. He never really mingled with other family members as much, but Lucy always find a way to make him smile. That may be the reason that Richard was giving his most precious book collection to her. But Lucy didn’t know what she was getting or she bothered to know what it was, she was just sad that she couldn’t meet her uncle one last time. As she was away from town and no one really said her anything. When she was visiting her parents last week, she get to know that her Uncle was no more, which came down shocking for her as she believed that her uncle was not that old enough to die.

Lucy was a cheerful girl. She had a long black hair and a pale white skin. Though, a bibliophile, she never looks the part as she kept good social interactions. As Lucy was lost in thoughts, she heard the doorbell. Since she already was expecting a delivery, she opened the door without much hesitation. She saw that she was indeed correct as it was the delivery man standing and said “There is a mail for Ms Lucy Sullivan”. “Yes thank you” She replied as she signed received. The delivery boy was kind enough to help her bring in the boxes. “And that’s the last one. Thank you” She smiled as the delivery boy went away.

Being a weekend, Lucy had a lot of time at her hand to check the books out. Even though she made the biggest room in the apartment her library, it couldn’t hold all her uncle’s books but she couldn’t really throw out books. As she opened the first box, she found a letter which told about her uncle’s will and the legal stuff. She kept the documents safe. As she browsed through the books, she saw a lot of books that said about magic, sorcery and other dark secrets of the world, which she find hard to believe but it was really interesting. Finally she found a single book covered and packed safely.

As soon as she picked the package, she was curious as to why this book was kept separately. She opened the package and found an old book bound with leather and the leather had what it seemed to be an ancient seal which seemed similar to her. But she brushed the thought aside and opened the book, which was written in some ancient letters which she couldn’t read and she asked to the book as she always does when she found a book hard to comprehend “What secrets do you hold? Can you tell me?” she asked and then smiled at her own antics. She then took the book and kept it inside a small box behind the shelf of her library.

Then she started keeping all the books in the shelves arranging everything accordingly

 

[Theris]

James watched from the window of the house across the street as the girl received the package. His eyes on her as she accepted the box, and followed her as she took the package inside. Hearing a sound behind him the young man took a quick step to the side and crouched, vanishing behind a small sofa as one of the houses actual residence entered the living room. She grab something from a nearby shelf and left, leaving the intruder to his observations.

He returned to the window, but the girl had already returned to her house. James turned away, creeping through the house to leave by the front door. Leaving the porch he started walking down the sidewalk, purposefully not looking at the house where he knew the book was inside. He could feel a pare of eyes on him as he walked, others interested in the same thing. Walking past a coin he snapped his fingers, causing the little disk of metal to jump into he waiting hand. As he walked away he rolled the small disk of metal between his fingers. The young man would need to plan, and prepare, but first he would need to but a little time, and with a snap like a gunshot, sent the coin zipping over his shoulder and into the upper window of another house down the street. "Game on" he whispered, his eyes glowing red with power as a dark grin appeared on his features.

 

[LiuLiu]

Lucy was busy arranging the things in her shelf that she didn't notice the time that was passing by. It was already past lunch time and after spending much time beside the books she needed some fresh air.

She decided to put on her jeans and black t shirt and a black hoodie as she walked out locking the door towards the Cafe. She took the old book that her Uncle gave her also so that she could try to understand it in peace.

She went to the Cafe near the park. Even though the Cafe is in the middle of the crowded city, the moment you enter into the Cafe the whole mood changes and you'll feel a kind of tranquility inside. That may be the reason why the place is so popular among the bibliophiles like Lucy.

Lucy went inside the Cafe and ordered some coffee as she tried to interpret what was in the old book as the book looked like it holds some sacred knowledge from the ancients.