"Tanya Huff - When The Student Is Ready" - читать интересную книгу автора (Huff Tanya)

"Your what?"

"My student."

"I have to agree to learn to be a wizard from a skinny dumpster diver and a smart-ass bird, or I wait
around for the teeth and claws to catch up with the eyes?"

"Yes."

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"Great choice."

"Not really. But you might survive either way. Some people do."

Except for the nervous mannerisms, Fred looked and sounded like he knew what he was talking about.
And she had to admit that given giant red eyes, nervous mannerisms weren't unreasonable. "Okay. Why
don't you get something to eat while I get changed. On second thoughtтАж" She had a sudden vision of
the two of them in the kitchen. "тАж wait here and I'll bring something out."

When Isabel returned to the terrace in street clothes, Fred had eaten a deli-pack of sliced roast beef, half
a loaf of bread, and was just licking the last of the mustard off a tablespoon. "Don't put that back in
theтАж Eww. Tell you what." She pushed the jar toward him. "Why don't you just keep the mustard."

Smiling, he shoved the spoon down until he could get the lid on, screwed it tight, and dropped the jar
over his left shoulder. It never hit the terrace.

"What happened toтАж ?"

"Pocket universe," Godfry told her, hopping down onto the table and poking around in the deli
wrapping. "Very handy."

"I'm sure." It would certainly solve the forty-pound backpack problem. "So what's next?"

Fred stood and wiped his hands on his pants, leaving bright yellow smears against the green. "Next we
go to my workshop and I teach you how to control your power."

"Okay, where's your workshop?"

"This is your workshop?"

A short walk from Isabel's building had brought them to the alley between the Sutton Place Hotel and
the insurance headquarters next to it. Given the caliber of tenants in both buildings it was a pretty clean
alley, but stillтАж

"The world is my workshop."