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тАЬGod, I wish I lived as close to school as you do,тАЭ Raoul said. тАЬWhen I think of all the cafeteria food I
wouldnтАЩt have to eatтАж!тАЭ

тАЬGo on, Pirate,тАЭ Kit said. тАЬSuffer a little. IтАЩll see you later.тАЭ

He made his way back to his locker, chucked his backpack into it, locked it up again, and headed out the
schoolтАЩs back door, jogging across the parking lot, through the gate, and around the corner onto Conlon
Road.

Ponch was bouncing around in the backyard, jumping almost to the top of the chain-link fence, as Kit
came down the driveway. тАЬOkay, okay, give me a minute,тАЭ Kit said. He pulled the screen door open and
poked the lock with one finger. тАЬHey, ChubboтАжтАЭ

The lock obligingly threw its bolt back for him. Kit patted the lock, opened the door, loped into the
kitchen, very hastily threw together a ham sandwich on rye with some mustard, and ate it. For his
mother, who was still asleep because she had been working night shifts at the hospital over the past
week, he left a note scribbled on the pad on the refrigerator: тАЬI had lunch. See you later.тАЭ He thought of
adding the code phrase тАЬOut on business nowтАЭ to let his mama know that there was wizardly work afoot,
but then he changed his mind. HeтАЩd have no more than his lunch period minus the time to eat the
sandwich before he would have to be back at school again, anyway.

Kit cleaned up the crumbs from his sandwich and went out, pulling the door softly closed behind him so
as not to wake his mama. тАЬSee you, big guy,тАЭ Kit said to the lock. тАЬKeep her safe.тАЭ

IтАЩm on it!

He went around the back, opened the gate softly, and closed it again, grabbing Ponch by the collar and
roughing him up a little by way of saying hello. тАЬAnd you werenтАЩt even barking,тАЭ Kit said. тАЬGood for
you.тАЭ

SheтАЩs asleep, Ponch said. I donтАЩt want her to yell at me.

тАЬNeither do I Good for you for thinking of it.тАЭ



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Are we going out?! Ponch began chasing his tail in delight.

тАЬJust for a quick look at our guy. I want to see if heтАЩs okay before I come barging in on him. WeтАЩre
going to have to be stealthy, though.тАЭ

Ponch finished his running around and sat down, his tail sweeping the sparse grass while Kit reached
into his тАЬpocketтАЭ and came out with the long chain of his transit spell, and another spell, more complex,
that he had prepared earlier. There were several different ways for wizards to be invisible, and this one
was probably the most comprehensive of them: Even if someone bumped up against Kit, he would feel
nothing, and the spell would incline him to think heтАЩd just stumbled somehow. Building the spell had