The look from the other woman shouldn't have caught her breath, cool eyes darkening with pupil dilation, or caused her lips to part slightly at the attention before she pressed them firmly back together. That was precisely the issue.

"That book is entirely mundane." The protective spells cast on it notwithstanding. Illyana knew the inventory, and all of the women working there knew to take a good hard look at what they were receiving before it went into circulation. All of them were magical adepts. They had not simply missed a powerfully cursed or enchanted item accidentally. "But you reek of-" Sex. "...Power. It's highly distracting."