A female voice

"My name is Mohiba, but others call me Mo" responded the figure with a soothing female voice giving a cautious wave with her hand. "Who are you?" Alexis felt a calming sensation wash over creating a comfort feeling with the figure.

"My name's Alexis, I'm the librarian of the adjoined library to this place." She watched as the figure fully emerged from the area next to the fireplace. Though the hooded robe hid some, the figure possessed a small framed body from what the robe had to offer."Is this your place?"

"Well, it's not just mine it's all of ours." Mo walked around the room with distance between her and Alexis.

"What do you mean all of ours, are there others back from where you just came from?" Alexis looked panicked towards the entry that Mo had come from.

"No, at the moment it's just I. Though the rule restricts to one being out and about," Her parade around the room had her passing by Alexis slowly.

"Rule of what?"

"Of this," Mo pointed at the book that Alexis had been handling that sat on the desk. "This book you wonder why it finds its way here don't you? You see this book at first may come across as blank, but once a handler handles it the book opens it self. It houses many of us, but feeding off the beholder it transmutes one of us to come through." Alexis stared at a set of eyes of Mo beneath the hood of her robe, again a pulsating sensation of comfort, relief and a new feeling of arousal washed over Alexis who did a quick shake to clear the cobwebs that had been forming over her mind.

"I'm confused, are you saying this book is magic?" She turned the page once more.

"In a way it is. Both a blessing and a curse. Unfortunately, it allows one of us to come out. Sometimes, more can be summoned, but that's on a rare occasion. Typically a ritual has to be underway for more to come forth." Mo walked closer to Alexis, stopping next to her.

"Ritual? Ritual as like summoning and sacrificing?" Alexis pointed at the picture on the page depicting a person in the middle of a pentagram.

"Yes those rituals are the bases of how we can come here." Mo outreached her hand tracing her long black finger nail over the page of the book. Alexis body shivered as if a static charge was being sent through her body. The book was acting as a connecting node between her and Mo as if they were positive and negative nodes of a battery.

"What about this room, what is it?"

"Well some would call it a lair, a study room, a lab or a house in some way. I comfortable call it a study." Mo walked towards the fireplace and turned around to face Alexis once again. "You look cold, should I draw a fire?" asked the figure as she stared from beneath her robe at Alexis . At first Alexis was going to contest Mo's statement, but the words that the woman spoke echoed in Alexis mind before she answered causing her body to spontaneous shiver like she was actually cold.

"Um, Yeah I'm a tad," She was caught off guard by her answer as if it weren't her own response.

"Please take a seat in love seat, I'll be glad to start a fire," Mo guided Alexis from behind the desk and onto the love seat in front of the fireplace. Mo walked over to the fireplace mantle and grabbed a metal object off it. The object was a flint striking device and she squeezed sending sparks into the fireplace which then led some sticks and twigs to catch fire. As they caught a small fire, Mo leaned down and Alexis found her self staring at the shape of what looked like a shapely ass that pressed against the material of the robe that Mo wore before being drawn towards Mo's hood watching as what looked like a gas came from the hood hit the embers sending the logs that lay atop the twigs and stick a fire. She looked confused at the phenomenal that just occurred in front of her and a small wave of heat began to emit from the fireplace as well as a glow.

"What are you?" asked Alexis as the women stood up and took a seat in the arm chair adjacent of her.