The book is thick, but you're amazed that it's not more gigantic when you realize the compendium of information this tome contains. It has practically every kind of every animal somewhere in its surprisingly modest (as in dictionary-sized) number of pages. The dog section alone contains more breeds than you've seen before and several you've never heard of. It has pictures of every single one, descriptions of their size, demeanor and geographical origin, and yes, paw prints. You love dogs, so you are thrilled at this resource.
Lap dogs, hunting dogs, search and rescue dogs... practically every popular breed for every major application, divided into sections. You're loving this because it even gives you training tips. You work at an obedience school now and your first job was as a dog walker. You hope to work your way through college and become a vet someday. Your grades are good in the classes that are actually about animals, especially dogs. This book could even help you on your research papers, you decide.
You're taking a closer look at one of your many favorite breeds when your hand, resting on the paw print, starts to feel odd. You look down at it and notice that it's glowing! You lift your hand off the paw print and notice that is glowing, too. What's going on? The glow in your hand and on the book fades away, but soon you get a weird twitching feeling all over as some spasms start to take hold of you. Then when you manage to hold still again a gurgly feeling in your stomach makes you bend over. You get dizzy and there's a ringing in your ears, and just all sorts of uncomfortable feelings pop up in different parts of your body, only to fade away before giving rise to others. You feel like something's about to happen. You wonder if it has something to do with the book.