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In a world where some families are blessed with magical abilities, Simone was born into one without a single spark of enchantment. Yet magic consumes her every thought. While other children play ordinary games, she loses herself in borrowed library books about spells and enchantments, watching with quiet envy as magical visitors pass through her town, wielding powers she can only dream of possessing.
Her father's modest shop has become more than a family business-it's her observatory of the magical world. From behind bolts of fabric and sewing notions, she studies every enchanted customer, memorizing the graceful flick of their fingers as they casually conjure light or transform objects with effortless charm. Each demonstration is both a wonder and a painful reminder of what she lacks.
Then comes the day when the shop bell announces visitors unlike any before: a formidable wizard-woman whose very presence seems to make the air crackle with energy, accompanied by a young apprentice whose nervous eyes dart around the shop. Their whispered argument escalates quickly-voices rising, magical energy building-until suddenly, control shatters.
Fabrics whirl through the air like autumn leaves caught in a tempest. Scissors snip and dance without hands to guide them. Colors leap from cloth to walls and back again. And in the center of this magical maelstrom stands Simone, frozen not in fear but in fascination.
As chaos engulfs her father's once-ordinary shop, something unexpected stirs within Simone herself. When a bolt of wild magic hurtles toward her, instead of diving for cover, she raises her hands in an instinctive gesture-and the unthinkable happens.
Now caught between furious magical visitors, her terrified non-magical family, and the awakening of something impossible within herself, Simone must confront the question: Was her lifelong fascination with magic merely preparation for this moment when dreams and reality violently collide?