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Ponch and him. Now the point was to find Darryl. The structure of the locator spell mandated that
Darryl was somewhere within a two-hundred-meter radius: All Kit had to do was look around.

Two hundred meters, Kit thought, could definitely include at least part of the school building. He walked
toward it, looking for any sign of the characteristic aura that would surround the object of his search
once he got within visual range. Beside him, Ponch paced along, looking at everything, his nose working.

From around the side of the school, a white van drove toward the front entrance and pulled up. Kit gave
the van a wide berth, having no desire to be run over by something that couldnтАЩt see him. A moment
later, the driver got out and went in through the front doors. Kit looked through the front windows of the
school, found himself looking at office space, not classrooms. тАЬOkay,тАЭ he said, тАЬso weтАЩll go in. DonтАЩt
start barking at anything, whatever you do!тАЭ

Please, Ponch said in a somewhat offended tone. Kit smiled in slight amusement as they headed for the
doors. Once upon a time, his dog wouldnтАЩt have been quite so focused during a wizardry, but lately,
since Ponch had started actively finding thingsтАФlike other universesтАФthis had changed.

They went up to the doors together. They were all closedтАФno surprise, in this weatherтАФand Kit was
unwilling just to pull one of them open: Someone might be watching. Never mind. We can just walk
through the glass, he thought. But then, through the glass of the door, Kit saw the van driver coming
back toward them. тАЬOkay,тАЭ Kit said softly to Ponch, тАЬhe can let us in. Just step back and donтАЩt let him
bump into you. WeтАЩll slip past before the door closes behind him.тАЭ

Fine.

The van driver, a small, slender man in a big parka, pushed the door open right in front of KitтАЩs nose,
and then reached up to the closing mechanism to pull down the little toggle that would hold the door
open. Convenient, Kit thought, and slipped through the door with Ponch close behind him.

In the main tile-and-terrazzo corridor of the school, a number of people were moving around; some of


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them were coming toward the doorsтАФsome students, Kit thought, heading for the van with a few
teachers. Field trip? he wondered. Then Kit paused, for the locator spell said in his head, Proximity alert
тАФsubject of search within fifty meters. Forty metersтАФ

ThatтАЩs them, Kit thought. тАЬPonch, come on,тАЭ Kit whispered. тАЬOver hereтАФтАЭ Together they moved off to
one side of the hallway as the group approached. Kit started examining them for signs of that faint,
glowing halo.

There were five kids in the group. Three of them were girls of different ages, one quite short and round,
the other two taller and thinner; they went by Kit in silence, not speaking to each other, though one of
them was smiling a placid smile. Two teachers followed close behind, then came the two boys and a
third teacher.

One was a thin, small, blond guy, who went past with a very uneven gait. But KitтАЩs attention was on the
boy behind him. Visible only to Kit and Ponch, the locator halo clung to him. He was, perhaps, eleven