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Inside the lock-up Siht he eon Number One, but then he realized that there was a sh a tiny barredand he relaxed Dungeon Nuh wherever he was now seon Sieon Nuotten it

Very slowly, Simon sat up His head hurt and his stomach felt horribly bruised, but as far as he could tell there were no bones broken He was a little confused by the huge holes in his tunic until, in a flash, it all caonthe bratand the Flyte Charain He was a failure A terrible failure Not only had Marcia never asked him to be her Apprentice, but it now turned out that DomDaniel had never wanted hi up those horrible sli endless trips to the Manuscriptoriuh Fox who had always looked down his long pointy nose at hi the Ice Tunnels to deliver the bones to that ghastly wo sure that old Weasal never saw hi her put the wretched bones into the A in time What a fool he had been And then, to top it all, his ion The boy hatonly elevenand there he was, not only the ExtraOrdinary Apprentice, he now had his own blasted dragon How did he do it?

Simon sat on the floor of the lock-up in a cloud of self-pity No one wanted hiht for him Life stunk and it just wasn&039;t fair

After a while a faan to look around his prison He&039;d show them they couldn&039;t tame Sirily, Simon pushed the door, but to no effect, except he heard soet out"

"What shall we do?"

"Is he very dangerous?"

"Oh, don&039;t be such a baby, Brian"

"Stop bickering you two The ExtraOrdinary will be here soon"

Simon smiled broadly Well, let her come, but he would not be there to meet her For Simon Heap had just realized where he was

Many years ago, Jannit had expanded her boatyard to take in the derelict old Castle Customs Quay The brick lock-up, which had been used for drunken sailors and suspicious characters landing at the Castle, was the only part of the old Custo, and Jannit had kept it to store her more valuable tools in It still had its heavy iron door with three e brass key in the lock Si into the Ice Tunnels

Si the hundreds of years of accuhtfully provided hi before the shovel hit metal about a foot beneath the surface

The Sealed trapdoor easily swung open in Siust of air blew up to h the trapdoor, down into the familiar chill of the Ice Tunnels

The full complement of thirteen Wizardsfor Jannit had speedily retrieved the other ten fro jetty outside the boatyardwere dutifully encircling the lock-up when Marcia marched into the boatyard, accompanied by Sarah and Silas Heap

Sarah and Silas had insisted on seeing their eldest son Unable to believe what Marcia had told them, they had decided to confront him "At least," Sarah had said, "he will have to sit and listen to us this time He won&039;t be able to run off like he usually does"

Jannit escorted the party to the lock-up, her sure somewhat dwarfed by Marcia in her purple silk robes, which billowed out around her in the su breeze

"Here we are, Madam Marcia," said Jannit as they stopped outside the circle of Wizards "He&039;s in there We put hio and he should have coon he attacked"

"Oh, dear," said Sarah anxiously, "I do wish he wouldn&039;t do these silly things"

"I&039;m sure we all wish that, Sarah," said Marcia sternly "But unfortunately he has progressed rather further than the silly stage now Evil-e is more what I would call it"

"Oh, Silas," wailed Sarah "What are we to do?"

"We&039;ll have a talk with hily, "and see what he has to say Now stop worrying; there&039;s nothing we can do Si by the door stood back respectfully for the ExtraOrdinary Wizard to walk through Jannit shot the bolts, turned her heavy brass key in the lock and pulled open the thick iron door

"Si into the lock-up before anyone could stop her "SimonSimon?"

"Did you know about this?" Marcia dely at the shiny metal trapdoor in the middle of the dirt floor of the lock-up

"No," said Jannit curtly She didn&039;t like the way Marcia was talking to her, and she certainly did not like having yet another thing in her boatyard that she knew nothing about