A Little Magic And A Trick or Two

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The morning came, the sun warming Aila from where she slept on the grassy floor of her room.

But morning also came with breakfast. ZebraAnna knocked lightly on the door before opening it.

"Miss Aila?" She called softly. "I bring food to break your fast..." ZebraAnna stared in shock at the transformed room.

Getting over her shock the zebra woman set the tray of feed down on one of the stumps and huffed over to the sleeping princess.

"Wake up, Miss Aila!" She barked.

Aila groaned and rolled onto her back. "Just a bit longer..."

"Get up! I don't know what you thought you were doing but you must fix it, now! Before someone comes in here."

Aila groaned and lifted her head. "What are ye talkin' bout?" Then she opened her eyes and yelped.

Sprinting to her hooves she went around the room frantically touching the trees and grass to be sure it wasn't an illusion.

"No, no, no, no!" Aila moaned. "This can't be happenin', it can't!"

ZebraAnna scowled. "It's real as I am, Miss Aila. I'd suggest you fix it quickly."

"No, no, ye don' understand." Aila looked at ZebraAnna, a panic in her green eyes. "I must've done this last night. I played me pipe for the Sisters...and any changin' magic I do under their light cannae be undone."

"How can you be sure?"

Aila flushed and her ears flattened nervously against her head. "I've done this before. It was an accident. But I was young. I was playing under the Sisters in me favorite tree. I wished it could be me friend. Next mornin' the tree could move and it talked when I came near." Aila shuddered. "Me Da had it chopped down into firewood. Made me watch too."

"So this room is going to stay like this forever?"

Aila nodded.

ZebraAnna sighed. "What shall we do?"

Aila tugged at her braids. "I don' know. Fer now just keep people outta this room."

"Do you know any locking spells?" ZebraAnna asked.

Aila looked at her. "Like what?"

The woman sighed. "Perhaps a spell you can put on the door so that no one else can open it?"

Aila thought for a moment before smiling. "Got it! But I need a lock of yer hair."

ZebraAnna plucked a coarse dark hair from her tail and handed it to Aila.

Aila grinned and hurried outside the door, closing it when ZebraAnna was out as well. Plucking a hair from her own head, Aila twined the two hairs into a ball and stuffed it in the lock.

Drawing a breath she put her hand over the lock and closed her eyes. Her hand started to glow green.

Then she began to speak.

"This peice of me and friend of mine.
Become one with ye till I declare it time.
To open for no one save her an me.
I thank ye, door, so mote it be."

The whole door shimmered with the green light for a moment then went back to normal.

Aila sighed with relief. It was a spell she had done once before. On her own room. Nothing could get through this door now save herself and ZebraAnna. They could try everything. But this door would never open for them. Not even if they tried to break it down.

Aila opened the door and went to eat her breakfast, quite please with herself. One of the first things she had learned to do with her magic was unlock doors, they were notoriously easy. Locking them was a different story.

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