As I told you all yesterday, today was the day Light and I tried out that spell. And the results were... Astonishing.
Light arrived earlier than usual: on Wednesday afternoons, she usually joins us at 4pm in order to spend the rest of the afternoon watching TV shows with me and Sam, but today, she showed up right after lunch.
We retreated in my room - which is isolated because my aunt couldn't bear the guitar noises for too long - and we started.
The beginning was quite simple really: cast a salt circle on the floor, around a table. We sat and, following the instructions, we started creating two pieces of art. Light was sculpting a block of clay into a unicorn, and I chose to draw a brightly coloured nerdy girl.
The thing is, not only did we have to create the pieces, but in order to give them a proper personality, we were to write down as much characteristics about them that we could think of.
Light, as she was planning to give life to a unicorn, didn't really have to worry about "human stuff" such as whether it liked scones with clotted cream or not, or if it had taken a particular like in books.
But I had to worry about such details, because I wanted the geek girl to be as human as possible. I gave her short, dyed blue hair, a Supernatural t-shirt, an undying love for most fantasy TV shows and books, a Harry Potter necklace, blue jeans, freckles, a grey flannel and combat boots. She was also gifted when it came to computers: I endowed her with the ability to crack any code. She liked apple pies, hated onions with a burning passion...
It took me over an hour to finish writing all of her characteristics down. When I was finally done, it was greeted by two cupcakes Light had found in the kitchen in the meantime, as she had finished describing her unicorn much sooner.
Then came the most difficult part: giving them life, putting a soul into these inanimate drawings. I will not write here any of the ingredients we used, nor will I tell you the words we said, as I don't think it'd be clever to give that knowledge to anybody.
As our last words faded into the air, we waited for a few excruciating seconds during which nothing happened; we were starting to worry we had failed, but everything went just fine.
Light's white clay unicorn started moving, slowly, waving its tail and walking quietly, while the nerdy girl I had created literally came out of the paper sheet. She wasn't in 2D, like I thought she would, but was exactly like a normal girl - excepted for her height, of course, as she was fifteen centimetres high.
The last step was to name them. I looked at her.
She turned around. "Are you talking to me?" She asked with the Irish accent I had given her.
"Yes," I said quietly, "I'm Jake, I'm the one who draw you."
"And from now on, your name will be Phoenix. Do you like it? If not, I can always..." I was starting to digress, but she cut me short.
Light named the unicorn Andrea, which I think is quite a funny name for a unicorn. After that, we had to put Andrea into the oven, in order to cook her, as she still was composed of wet, fragile, soft clay. The unicorn didn't quite like it, but at least she's now more solid than before.
That was the first day of our adventures in magic. And honestly, it was hella cool.
