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Marcia was sitting on Catchpole&039;s chair on the landing, clutching The Undoing of the Darknesse The purple door to her rooain, but this time everyone, except for Spit Fyre, was on the other side of it, listening to the Deep Clean, Repair and Anti-Darke spells that were in progress inside Marcia&039;s rooe splotch of Doon, had left Spit Fyre for the Anti-Darke spell to sort out
Catchpole felt rather like the host at an aard party Warily, he tried to make polite conversation "Would this be a five- to re Schedules he had learned the previous week
"Five minutes," Marcia snorted derisively "It will take et rid of all that Darke sliht by a certain dragon No, it&039;s an infinite spell"
"Infinite My goodness" Catchpole was lost for words He had a vision of spending the rest of his lifeto make polite conversation with Marcia Overstrand It was not a relaxing thought
"An Infinite spell will take as long as it takes," Marcia informed hi that perhaps you could learn from, Catchpoleas I seem to remember that the section on Infinite spells is on the very last page of the Cleaning Schedules"
"Oh Ah, yes I do reulped nervously, but Marcia did not sees on her et Weasal and his ghastly housekeeper I want theht now I shall be interested to hear what they have to say for theive me more pleasure, but I was Returned from the house" Alther shook his head dis you such bad advice I can&039;t believe that after all Otto Van Kla"
"I don&039;t blah Fox You warned h Fox, and I wouldn&039;t listen"
"You were affected by the Shadow," Alther replied "You were not yourself"
"And I didn&039;t listen to Septins were there but I wouldn&039;t see them"
"Couldn&039;t see them, Marcia, not wouldn&039;t," replied Alther "It&039;s a terrible thing to be Shadowed"
Marcia stood up suddenly, and Catchpole leaped to catch the chair as it tuone, and I see things clearly now
And even when I was being Shadowed, I kneell enough to keep an eye on the place whereI know for sure is that although Sih the year, he did not bring theh the front door of Weasal&039;s house None of my Watchers ever saw him
"Your Watchers?" asked Alther "What Watchers?"
"The ex-Young Army Lads The ones from the Resettlement Home There are a few nice boys ant to be Wizards"
"Nice!" snorted Septimus "They were horrible Every time I went there they called me names"
"Well, I told theet suspicious They were very good Out on the pier day and night in all weathers, quite dedicated, they were They&039;ll ood Wizards when they&039;re older"
A sudden thought struck Septih the Ice Tunnels, didn&039;t he? He&039;s been doing that all the time"
"Shh!" Marcia looked shocked "Not in front ofCatchpole, get down to Snake Slipway and bring Weasal Van Kla Room just off the Great Hall until I ah Fox and do the same Understand?"
Catchpole bowed and headed for the spiral stairs, grateful to be spared any further duties as party host
A fewsound announced that the door was UnBarring It swung open and everyone stepped into an i Darkenesse Even Marcia looked pleasedfor a briefon her best Chinese carpet
"It&039;s fledged," cried Marcia in disbelief, "all over my best carpet Wretched creature!"
Spit Fyre looked unconcerned; he was busy unfolding his wings for the first ti a thick dusting of green fuzz on Marcia&039;s carpet Now Spit Fyre had an irresistible urge to open his wings and flyand Marcia knew enough about dragons to know that there could be no stopping hiet hi hi his FirstFlyte in here"
"What launch pad?" asked Seption ," Marcia said, waving her hand at thethat Simon had Caused to open
"Ah" said Septi of a flying dragon in the stone lintel above the
"Don&039;t worry," said Marcia, "it&039;s quite safe All ExtraOrdinaries have to keep the launch pad h unfortunately it does give idiots like Simon Heap somewhere to land"
Spit Fyre was enticed out onto the launch pad with a box of biscuits that Septiy but that did not seeon He sat contentedly on the wooden platfor the whole Castle, which was laid out below him like a massive Counter-Feet board
Inside the Wizard Tower a discussion was going on