“I think I have exactly what you want; it just came in so it’s in the back somewhere,” she said in a thin and wheezy voice.
As she turned again to pass through the curtain dividing the store, Sarah couldn’t help but roll her eyes. How many other times had she come to similar dark and dreary stores just like this one in the hopes of finding something legitimately magical? Sure, she had occasionally found something with a tiny spark of magic within, but those were few and far between. Far more common was the random bits and bobs that likely never had any connection to anything magical at all. With a muted sigh, she reminded herself that few people believed in magic anymore, and most of that small fraction were fringe weirdoes at best.
Minutes whirled past as she found herself looking over the odds and ends filling the dusty shelves. It was taking long enough that she was starting to consider leaving without a word. Just as she had almost made up her mind, the stooped old raven returned, clutching an ill-maintained box in both hands.
“Here we are,” she rasped with a twinkle in her eyes. “A rather unpleasant young man came in ranting about quite a number of things. Oh, you should have heard the peculiar things he kept talking about as if they were real.” A cackle quickly turned into a coughing fit that took quite a while before she could continue. “Now where was I? Ah, yes, I think it might be exactly what you are looking for.”
Setting the box down on the counter, her stiff fingers struggled with the latch. Sarah wasn’t very hopeful, but she couldn’t stop the tingle of anticipation from spreading through her body either. After several nerve-wracking seconds, the latch finally came undone, and the lid of the box was eased back revealing…
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