The rumors of a long-forgotten library that was said to be cursed were too alluring for her. She had spent too long wondering what secrets a place like that would hold regarding herbs and potion-making to be frightened away by childish tales now. Besides, how dangerous could a library be?

Running through the towering arch her footstep echoed throughout the vast, empty hall. Once elegant and bustling with the murmur of busy minds the place now lay silent. Smashed and destroyed tables and chairs lay scattered among the ground while weeds and grass stretched up and grew around them. Ivy covered the walls from outside, obscuring bookshelves and banisters. Nature was the new resident of the library.

Despite such disrepair she noticed that most of the shelving down each hall still had a healthy amount of books. No one had gotten here first or taken them and they somehow hadn't degraded. Her mind raced with the possibilities here. Where would she start? There were so many corridors and bookshelves it would take weeks to go through everything here. She had all the time in the world and no one to bother her while she scoured the place for it's secrets. A wave of excitement hit her at the thought of it.

As she was walking up to one of the bookshelves a loose book that was scattered on the ground grabbed her attention. A large tree hand-drawn surrounded by text lay on the open pages with the title "Chapter 3: Herbology basics." at the top.

"What luck." She thought to herself as she bent down to pick up the book. "First book I find and it's exactly what I was after"

She began flicking through the pages and skimming over the text. A lot of it she already knew. Chapters on techniques, chapters on specific fruits and vegetables, chapters on soils and plant care. She was starting be become disappointed in the book until she got to the end paragraph of a chapter. The hand writing was larger and scrawled, as if the writer was in a hurry or distressed.

She traced her finger over the paragraph as she read. "For emergencies only!! If the growth of a plant is slowed you may recite the incantation Auctus Propero. Even the most frail plants will grow in the blink of an eye."

"A spell" she thought. "I could use this on my own herb collection. Already this place is paying off!" Hastily she closed her eyes and started to recite the words under her breathe to commit them to memory for later.

"Auctus Propero...Auctus Propero...Auctus Propero..."

Her disappointment was immediately gone and she felt herself swelling with excitement at her discovery. Her thoughts drifted to what other things were waiting to be discovered. She was bursting with elation at each idea that crossed her mind. Or was that something else...?

A sharp pop snapped her out of her chanting. She opened her eyes to find herself at eye-level with the banister of the second floor. Once a petite dragoness her looming frame was now double in size and plump with extra padding. A prominent belly bulged out from under her shirt blocking the view of the ground. The button on her shorts had burst open from the pressure her thick waist was pushing out on her clothes.

Within mere moments she had swollen so large that she took up most of the room in the hall. The immense weight of her thick thighs pressing down cracked the concrete below her. Her clothes creaked as her girth threatened to burst the threads holding them together while new mass widened her from every angle.

She drops the book and grasps at the sides of her strained shirt fruitless trying to tug them over her expansive waist and belly. Had she read the rest of the text she would have noticed the last line left:

"Only to be used on plants. Spell is sight-directed."

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Like a lot of the drawings I make this started out as a sketch that I kept working on little by little until it flourishes into an idea. An idea I spend too much time on. I wasn't going to have any text for it either but it felt incomplete without some sort of context.

I don't know if people like fleshing out ideas like this more with a setting and a bit of a story or just prefer the main drawing and nothing else. They don't have to be on the same scale of this but I usually like having a bit of context behind these drawings. Either way it's at least fun to do.