Scene Title: Damage Control in the Restricted Section
Location: Spellthorn Library- Deep Restricted Section
This part of the library hums with latent enchantment. The air is heavier, charged. Shelves curve oddly, as though trying to hide their contents. Some books have teeth. Others whisper warnings when touched.
Mood: Panicked Determination / Arcane Dread
Dakota’s humiliation is fresh, her belly heavier, her shirt warmer. But she’s not giving up- not yet.
Beth’s humming disappears down the rows of ancient tomes, replaced by silence- and the faint patter of bare feet on cold tile.
Dakota clutches her now even rounder belly. Her breasts feel awkwardly full, warmth spreading in pulses. A faint tingling at the tips warns her: she is one surprise away from soaking her shirt again.
Dakota (whispering in panic): “Okay. Okay-okay-okay. Damage control. No enchantments, no rhyming, no verse. Just…fix this. Quietly.”
She waddles toward the back of the library, cheeks flushed as each footstep echoes wetly in the silence.
Dakota (half-breathing, half-chanting): “I am not going to be Beth’s barefoot baby factory. I am not going to leak through my shirt again. I just need one good counterspell. Or a potion. Or a black-market mage with no moral compass.”
She slips into the Restricted Section, passing under a flickering sign marked: “Faculty Access Only: Biothaumaturgy & You”
Shelves loom higher. One sneezes. Another chuckles.
Dakota ducks behind a crooked bookcase, trying to look less cursed than she is.
Dakota (rummaging): “Let’s see…‘Undoing the Undone’…’Mystical Reversal for Idiots’…Oh my god, is that ‘The Sorceress’s Guide to Fertility Enhancement’?! Nope-nope-nope…!”
She freezes as her hand lands on a dusty tome with silver etching that shimmers faintly in her palm: ‘Anchors, Vessels, and Magical Misdirection: Surviving Arcane Overload’.
Dakota (hope rising): “Yes. Please. Give me a loophole. A backdoor. A non-leaking way out of this.”
She sits with a soft huff, trying to ignore the moist squelch beneath her shirt as she cracks open the cover.
Title Page: *"For those trapped by wombbinding, forced nurturing, or other long-term arcane fertility effects."
Dakota (wincing): “Oh no. That’s a whole category?!”
