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required half an hourтАЩs careful reading from the manual at a time of morning when Kit would rather still
have been in bed, followed by fifteen or twenty minutes on his back, as exhausted as if heтАЩd run around
the school track about ten times. But now, as he shook the cloaking spell out onto the air in a cloudy web
of woven Speech, he had to admire his handiwork. The basic spellweb would last a good while, as long
as he remembered to recharge it at intervals.

тАЬOkay,тАЭ he said to Ponch. тАЬYou ready?тАЭ

Yeahyeahyeahyeah!

тАЬGood. Stay close to me. This thing only has about a six-foot radius.тАЭ He draped the invisibility spell
over his shoulder for a moment, stuck the chain of the transit spell into the belt of his parka, and reached
down into the тАЬpocketтАЭ for his wizardтАЩs manual. тАЬNow then,тАЭ he said. He flipped it open, and the pages
riffled to the spot heтАЩd bookmarked. He ran a finger down the listing of functions on that page.
тАЬLocation and detectionтАж cross-reference to personnel listingsтАж Right.тАЭ The locator spell blocked out
on the page rearranged itself to include DarrylтАЩs listing, and the listing itself pulsed to indicate that it was
тАЬin circuitтАЭ with the rest of the spell and ready to go.

тАЬThis is a temporal-spatial locator routine with sync to an existing transit nexus now balanced for two,тАЭ
Kit said in the Speech. тАЬPurpose: Locate and identify the wizard in the listing. Additional info: Linkage
to stealth routine referenced on pageтАжтАЭ He stopped and had to check his other bookmark, on the
cloaking spellтАЩs page, because the manualтАЩs pagination was constantly changing, depending on KitтАЩs
needs (and sometimes its own). тАЬThree-eighty-nine. Ready?тАЭ

The whole spell pulsed bright on the page as he turned back to it. Slowly Kit started reading, making
sure of his pronunciation, and that his and PonchтАЩs names were correctly entered. The usual waiting
silenceтАФof the universe leaning in around them to hear the Speech spoken and implement itтАФnow
started to build. Ponch sat there with his big eyes glinting and his tail thumping as the power of the spell
built all around them. Kit felt a brief pang because of the absence of the other voice that usually would
have been there, reading her half of the work, but there was no time for the feeling right now. Kit
finished the spell, snapped the manual shut, and in the moment before the spell worked, flipped the
cloaking routine over himself and Ponch.


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The power washed up over and around them, blotting out the backyard. A moment later, Kit and Ponch
were standing in a parking lot two towns away, looking at another school building.

It was considerably smaller than KitтАЩs junior high, though this place shared the same kind of late-
seventies institutional architecture: a lot of plate glass, a lot of brick. Kit looked around them through the
slight heat-haze shimmer of the invisibility spell, keeping Ponch with him for the moment simply by
holding on to his collar. The school was surrounded by suburban housing and, off to one side, what
looked like the back of a strip mall; maybe about fifty cars were parked around the school. It had a small
playing field, but nobody was out there.

Kit wasnтАЩt overly concernedтАФeven if anyone had been out there, they wouldnтАЩt have been able to see