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KitтАЩs mama came drifting in and looked over KitтАЩs shoulder as he continued to speak passionately to the
remote and the DVD player about the importance of cooperation and teamwork, the need not to feel
diminished by acting, however briefly, as part of a whole. But the remote refused to do anything further,
and the screen stayed blue. Kit started to think he must be turning that color in the face.

тАЬIt sounds like escargot,тАЭ his mother said, leaning her short, round self over him to look at the TV.

тАЬWhat?тАЭ

тАЬSorry. Esperanto. I donтАЩt know why the word for snails always comes out first.тАЭ

Kit looked at his mother with some interest. тАЬYou can hear it?тАЭ he said. It was moderately unusual for
nonwizards to hear the Speech at all. When they did, they tended to hear it as the language they spoke
themselvesтАФbut because the Speech contained and informed all languages, being the seed from which
they grew, this was to be expected.

тАЬI hear it a little,тАЭ his mother said. тАЬLike someone talking in the next room. Which it wasтАжтАЭ

тАЬI wonder if the wizardry comes from your side of the family,тАЭ Kit said.

His motherтАЩs broad and pretty face suddenly acquired a nervous quality. тАЬUh-oh, the chicken broth,тАЭ she
said, and took herself back to the kitchen.

тАЬWhat about Ponch?тАЭ Kit said.

тАЬHe ate the dog biscuit,тАЭ his mother said after a moment.

тАЬAnd he didnтАЩt ask you any more philosophical stuff?тАЭ

тАЬHe went out. I think he had a date with a biological function.тАЭ

Kit smirked, though he turned his face so she wouldnтАЩt see it if she came back in. His motherтАЩs work as a
nurse expressed itself at home in two ways: either detailed and concrete descriptions of things youтАЩd
never thought about before and (afterward) desperately never wanted to think about again, or shy
evasions regarding very basic physical operations that youтАЩd think wouldnтАЩt upset a six-year-old.
PonchтАЩs business seemed mostly to elicit the second response in KitтАЩs mama, an effect that usually made
Kit laugh.

At the moment he just felt too tired. Kit paused in his cheerleading and went rummaging through the
paperwork on the floor for the DVDтАЩs and remoteтАЩs manuals. WeтАЩre in trouble when even a remote
control has its own manual, he thought. But if a wizard with a bent toward mechanical things couldnтАЩt

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