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even if I did, I couldn't tell you. You have to find out
yourself; magic swords always work that way. Don't you
know anything?"

"Do you want me to recite the names of the Four Hundred
Minor Swords of Korred the Spellsmith? I know lots of
things; I just don't know about this. How do I find out?"

"Follow the sword, silly," Suz said, and disappeared
among the leaves.




I DIDN'T TRY to chase the lizard. For one thing, there wasn't
much point in it; Suz was small enough to hide practically
anywhere. For another, I didn't want to go running through
me Enchanted Forest. People get killed that way, or en-
chanted, or other unpleasant things. And besides, I wanted
to think.

I settled back against the tree and looked down at the
sword, a little unhappily. "Follow the sword," Suz had said.
But Mother had told me not to take it out unless I meant


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to use it, and I didn't flunk "following" it was the kind of
use she meant. Besides, I wasn't sure I wanted to draw a
magic sword in the middle of the Enchanted Forest, espe-
cially one I didn't know anything about. I decided to try
something else.

I stood up and looked around. Over on my right there
was a little gap in the trees, not enough to call a clearing,
just a place where me trees were farther apart. I went over
to the middle of it and stood there while I tried to unfasten
the sheath. It was a lot more complicated than it looked;

finally I had to take the whole belt off. I wrapped the belt
around the sheath and set the whole thing down in the middle
of the open space. I backed up a couple of steps and sat

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down on the ground with the hilt of the sword closest to