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'And she'd say "SeeYan 'An' betweentimes she'd stand verra still, like a stachoo'

'Sounds like she was trying to invent some kind of invisibility spell,' Miss Level mused 'They don't work like that, of course'

'We reckoned she was just tryin' to throw her voice,' said Nearly Big Angus 'So it sounds like it's comin' fra' somewhere else, ye ken? Wee Iain can do that a treat e're huntin''

'Throw her voice?' said Miss Level, her brorinkling 'Why did you think that?'

' 'Cuz when she said "See me not", it sounded like it wuz no' comin fra' her and her lips didnae les When she spoke next, her voice was a little strange 'Tellthere, was sheat all?'

'Just breathin' verra slow,Yan 'Were her eyes shut?'

'Aye!' Miss Level started to breathe very fast 'She walked out of her own body! There's not one -'

'- witch in a hundred who can do that!' she said 'That's Borrowing, that is! It's better than any circus trick! It's putting -'

'- your mind somewhere else! You have to -'

'- learn how to protect yourself before you ever try it! And she just invented it because she didn't have a mirror? The little fool, why didn't she -'

'- say? She walked out of her own body and left it there for anything to take over! I wonder what -'

'- she thought she was -'

'- doing?' After a while Rob Anybody gave a polite cough 'We're better at questions about fightin', drinkin' and stealin'/ he lin''