Chapter 5

Health

'Health: A primary factor of a practitioner of the Arts is their health. With Health comes endurance and strength both needed to do ritual magic. Some ritual spells are considered completely impossible by a sole practitioner.'

Katy was fully dressed and sitting in a chair in her hospital room. She was supposed to be release around noon to go home if all her test came back normal. Her hand grasps the amulet around her neck. That spell she had cast was a lulu. She had hope to kick start her growth spurt back to normal, but not to do it all over night.

Now she was going to have to be very careful. Her whole family would be watching out for her. Humm, she chanted a quick little cantrip under her breath and snap her fingers and the door to her room shut. A few minute later someone pushed on the door trying to enter, but the door did not budge.

"Miss? Do you have something blocking the door?" the question came through the door.

"I'm sorry? No there's nothing near the door." Katy answered.

She just sat in her chair and waited as they spent the next hour trying to open her door. Many different voices spoke to her soothingly assuring her that they would have it open soon. Finally a voice told her to go in the bathroom and shut that door. Katy went in the bathroom wondering who that had been.

There was a loud crashing sound from her room. Cracking the bathroom door a bit she looked out. A second loud crack came and her door felled into the room. A large fireman step over the door in his hands he griped some strange looking device.

"Katy," he called her name in a calm voice. "Are you okay?"

She opened the bathroom door and stared at him, he was a giant. At least seven feet tall she thought. Now that was a tall man.

"I'm Okay. What was wrong with that door?"

"I have no idea Miss. My job is to get you free of this room." He stepped over to her and picked her up.

"So let get you out of here."

Once in the hallway he sits her down near the nurse's desk. Katy looked around it was a mess, people were rushing all over the place. Some important looking men were watching the activity at her room. Maintenance people were dragging the remains of her door out and loading it on a work cart.

One of the men in suits walked over to the supervisor. Katy heard him give instruction. "I want to know what happen here. Why did that door get stuck? This is a hospital we have to be able to get to our patients as quickly as possible. That girl was out of our reach for over an hour. That is not allowed."

"Yes sir. We're going to measure everything about that door jamb while it is in place. We are checking the floor under the door. Then in our workshop that door is going to be disassembled completely. Sir I personally tried for 30 minutes to get it open. It was like it was welded shut. I want to know how it did that."

"Good man, give me daily reports."

"Katy!" she heard her mom. Looking around Katy saw her rushing toward her. "What happen?" she asked hugging her daughter close.

Now that felt weird. Always before she would have to lean down to hug her, but now her head was only a little bit above Katy's own.

"I don't know. My door got stuck somehow, they been working on it for like an hour finally a fireman got into my room. Looking over her shoulder she found the fireman in question back at the door. He was pointing at something and a whole group of maintenance men were gathered around him. The supervisor was crouched down with a notepad and writing like crazy.

"Superglue? That crazy, how could someone superglue her door shut?"

"Plus it takes time for glue to sit. This door had been open most of the morning. I would appreciate samples for our labs." The fireman told them.

That was it. Her Mom had her out of there as quick as she could move. But the experiment had work. She now knew that she could lock a door so no one could casually open it and walk in.

Well the next couple of days were boring, to her at least. Her Mom kept Katy home from school. They did go buy her some new clothes. Katy had never been very interested in clothes. If they covered her she was happy. In her opinion clothes were to attract attention to you. She had not wanted people's attention.

They headed to Wally World, the shopping Mecca. She really needed some new clothe everything she had on was too tight.

"Mom, even here this is going to cost a fortune! I need everything." Katy lowered her voice "my panties are too tight".

Her Mom looked at her and then she started laughing. "Katy dear that's the first time you ever complained about growing up." She continued to giggle as she shopped.

She threw four sets of bras into the basket. "Mom!"

"Yes dear?" she asked absently.

"How do you know they will fit?" Katy asked.

"I know dear, I also asked at the hospital and they read it off your charts. That was one of the things they checked there."

She picked up the package and read the label 32 A. "Mom Ms. Higgins measured me and she said 30A."

"Yes I know but the hospital stated that you were 32A almost ready for a B cup."

Katy checked out her figure in a nearby mirror. Her Mom was right, she twisted her body. She could almost see her breast getting larger.

"You will notice when you try on your clothes they might be slightly loose. Dr. James told me that you were still growing, but very slowly now."