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interfering.

But these commonsense counsels were still no comfort in the middle of the night, when she was alone in
the dark. All Nita could do was wipe her face repeatedly, dry her eyes on the pillow, and hope to fall
asleep eventually. Lacking that, sheтАЩd lie there and wait for dawn.

Nita lay there, almost seeing the eyes hidden in the exaggerated colors and shadows of the painted face,
and squeezed her own eyes shut. ItтАЩs just my pain in

disguise, she thought. Pain expressed as a symbol, one step away from the reality.

I wish this were over with. I wish life were normal again... But she knew that the old kind of normal was
never going to come back. Somehow she was just going to have to make a new one.

Nita turned over to try to go back to sleep, but it took a long while: From the shadows of dream, those
eyes kept watching herтАж




The next day was Tuesday. Kit went through his early classes more or less mechanically. The problem
of TomтАЩs тАЬlost wizardтАЭ was on his mind. Tracking him down and identifying him wouldnтАЩt be a problem
тАФthe manual would be able to localize him and point him out when Kit was close enough. But what
then? he thought as the bell rang for fourth period. He picked up his backpack and walked out of his
math class on his way to history. Do I just walk up to him, say, тАЬHi, there. IтАЩm on errantry and I greet
you. WhatтАЩs the problem?тАЭ Is it better to just take a good look at him from a distance, maybe?

тАЬHey, KF, donтАЩt say hi or anything!тАЭ

Kit glanced around and found Raoul Eschemeling walking along next to him. Or rather, he glanced over
and then up, because Raoul went up a good ways. He was a skinny, pale blond guy, tall enough to be a
basketball playerтАФthe kind of person for whom the word gangly originally could have been coined.
Friendly and gregarious, Raoul was constantly inventing bizarre nicknames for the other kids in the
advanced history class, a motley crew of crazies of various ages, all fast-tracked together into a single
advanced unit. тАЬKFтАЭ was short for тАЬkit fox,тАЭ and this nickname had stuck longer than any of the others
Raoul had hung on Kit at one point or another.

тАЬHey, Pirate,тАЭ Kit said. тАЬSorry, I was daydreaming.тАЭ

тАЬSaw that. You almost walked into a locker there. You ready for MachiavelliтАЩs quiz?тАЭ

тАЬOh, god, no,тАЭ Kit said as they turned the corner and headed down the corridor toward their classroom.

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тАЬMachiavelliтАЭ was Mr. Mack, their history teacher, and, in his case at least, the nickname was
justifiable: He had a twisty, calculating mind that made learning history from him a pleasure. тАЬI forgot.
Well, I did the reading. Maybe IтАЩll survive.тАЭ