The Spell of Love and Power

I don't know what it is about the library. I've always felt at home here, and today was no different. The smell of old books, mixed with a hint of decay always seemed to put me at ease, and allow my mind to wander.

As I perused the shelves that day, I noticed a book that was almost hidden from view. It's plain brown cover looked like it had been stitched together from pieces of leather, and the spine was held together by what looked like twine. "The Book of Spells", I read aloud as I pulled the book from the shelf.

I flipped through the pages for only a moment before closing the book and slipping it into my purse. When I got home, I would take a look inside it and see if there were any spells that might be useful in my life. After all, who doesn't need a little magic in their life?

That night I found myself unable to sleep, so instead of staring at the ceiling and waiting for dawn, I decided to go ahead and have a look at this spell book. The pages were yellowed and brittle, but there didn't seem to be any real damage to them. As I turned each page carefully, looking for any spell that might be of use to me, I noticed one section written in an unfamiliar language. But then again, most people's handwriting is unfamiliar to me so this wasn't out of the ordinary.

Still unable to find anything in particular that caught my eye, I flipped to the end of the book looking for some sort of index or table of contents which would help me find what I was looking for faster. That's when something shiny caught my eye on the back cover of the book. My eyes widened when I realized that there was a keyhole in the back cover!

I couldn't believe how lucky this was! If this book had been locked shut all these years why would someone go through all the trouble to put a lock on it in the first place? Of course now it made sense why someone might want to protect whatever spell was written inside...but still...this was too good an opportunity to pass up!

Without thinking twice about it, I grabbed my house key and slid it into hole and twisted. A small click echoed through my room as something inside clicked into place. Having found what had probably been a mistake on whoever's part who originally locked up this book, I gripped both sides of the cover firmly and pulled them apart slowly.

On one side were two incredibly familiar looking keys...the keys from between two locks in my house which had always been a mystery until now! On the other end was a single key that wasn't familiar at all...and yet at the same time it felt like it had been mine forever!

A smile crept across my face as curiosity took over and without thinking twice about it, I reached into my purse where I had stashed away The Book Of Spells earlier that day, and pulled out those familiar looking keys and inserted them into their matching slots on the golden key ring on one side of The Book Of Spells.