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had embarked on some extremely complicated project that seemed to require three souffle dishes
and the use of every appliance in the kitchen at once. She decided to get out as fast as she could,
before she was asked to wash something. "Hi, Mum," she said, and edged hurriedly towards the
door into the rest of the house.
"What's the rush?" said her mother. тАЬDon't you want to see what I'm doing?"
"Sure," said Nita, who wanted to do no such thing. "What are you doing?"
"I've been thinking," said her mother.
Nita began to worry more than ever. Her mother was at her most dangerous when she was
thinking, and it rarely meant anything but trouble for Nita. 'About what?"
"Sit down, honey. Don't look as if you're going to go flying out the door any minute. I need to talk
to you."
Uh ohтАж here it comes! Nita sat down and began playing spin-the-spoon games with one of the
wooden spoons that among many other utensils was littering the kitchen table.
тАЬHoney," her mother said,"this wizardry...тАЭ
тАЬIt's going pretty well with the trees, Mum," Nita said, desperate to guide her mother on to some
subject more positive. Her present tone didn't sound positive at all.
тАЬNo, I don't mean that, honey. Talking to trees - that's all right, that doesn't bother me. The kind of
things you've been doing latelyтАж you and KitтАж"
Oh no. "Mum, we haven't got in trouble, not really. And we've been doing pretty well, for new
wizards. When you're as young as we are. . ."
"Exactly," her mother said. "When you're as young as you are." She did something noisy with the
blender for a moment and then said, "Hon, don't you think it would be a good idea if you just let all
this - have a rest? Just for a month or so."
Nita looked at her mother without understanding at all, and worrying. "What do you mean?"
"Well, your dad and I have been talking - and you and Kit have been seeing an awful lot of each
other in connection with this wizard business. We're thinking that it might be a good idea if you
two sort ofтАж didn't see each other for a little while."
"Mum!"
"No, hear me out. I understand you're good friends, I know there's nothingтАж physical going on
between you, so put that out of your mind. We're very glad each of you has such a good friend.
That's not a concern. What is a concern is that you two are spending a lot of time on this magic
stuff, at the expense of everything else. That's all you do. You go out in the morning, you come back
worn out, you barely have energy to speak to us sometimesтАж What about your childhood?"
"What about it?" Nita said, in some slight annoyance. Her experience of most of her childhood so
far had been that it varied between painful and boring. Wizardry might be painful occasionally,
but it was never boring. 'Mum - you don't understand. This isn't something that you can just turn
off. You take the Wizard's Oath for life."
тАЬOh, honey!тАЭ her mother said in some distress, and dropped a spoon. She picked it up, wiping it off.

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'Why do you have to make this harder than it. Never mind. Look. Dad thinks it would be a good
idea if you went to visit your Aunt Annie in Ireland for a month or so, until school starts again."
тАЬIreland!тАЭ
'Well, yes. She's been inviting us over there for a while now. We can't go with you, of course -we've
had our holiday for this year, and Dad has to be at work. He can't take any more time off. But you
could certainly go. School doesn't start until September the ninth. That would give you a good
month and a half now."
There was going to be nothing good about it, as far as Nita was concerned. The best part of the