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They headed back the way theyтАЩd come, Kit pausing briefly in TomтАЩs backyard with the spell-chain in
his hands to adjust the variable that determined how much and how fast the air displaced around their
transiting mass when they тАЬcame out of nowhere.тАЭ Ponch was bouncing up and down around him,
making it difficult for Kit to remember where in the structure of the spell the variable actually was.
тАЬWould you sit down?тАЭ he said under his breath to Ponch, while passing the softly glowing chain of
words through his hands until the little barbed bit sticking out from the variable scratched his skin. Kit

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held the word up in front of his eyes, squinting at it like someone threading a needle, and managed to
catch the delicate outward-hooked tail of the spell character between finger and thumb.

Chicken! Ponch was shouting in his head. Hurry up! ItтАЩs chicken!

тАЬAnd philosophy goes right out the window, huh?тАЭ Kit said as he twiddled the mass-displacement
variable; it shaded down from a bright blue to a darker one. тАЬYouтАЩre a bad influence on those guys, you
know that?тАЭ

Me? Never. Chicken!

тАЬRight,тАЭ Kit said, folding the variableтАЩs tail back in and shaking the spell through a quick sine wave to
unkink it. It fell smoothly to the ground and knotted itself. тАЬNow sit down or youтАЩre gonna wind up in
two different places, and not in one piece!тАЭ

Ponch sat down but still managed to bounce a little.

The spell flared up, its blue a little darker this time. A second later they were standing in KitтАЩs backyard
again, without the ear-popping effect this time, and the light faded out of the spell.

тАЬBetter?тАЭ Kit said, winding the spell-chain up and sticking it back in his тАЬpocket.тАЭ

ItтАЩs fine. IтАЩm hungry! Ponch shouted, and ran for the house.

Kit breathed out, feeling hungry, too, and tired. This, at least, had nothing to do with the emotional
climate. No wizardry is without its price, and this was the normal reaction to a transit wizardry: a small
but significant deduction from KitтАЩs personal energy supply. It was one of the reasons why, as they got
older, a lot of wizards spent as much time as they could making sure they were in decent physical shape.

Kit went after Ponch and was surprised not to see his mama and pop eating in the kitchen, as they
usually did. He wandered into the living room and found them there on the sofa. KitтАЩs pop was finishing
the last of what must have been a second helping of arroz con polio, watching the TV screen, while
KitтАЩs mama sat next to him, cross-legged, punching the scan button on the remote and looking at the TV
with an expression of extreme bemusement.

His father looked up. тАЬFive billion channels and nothing on,тАЭ he said in a kind of horrified astonishment.