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Master Rufus went over to a s stove with circles of stones where burners usually went, he reached into a cabinet and brought down three eenerally find it better to let new apprentices settle in their roo overwhel"

"Those plates are empty," Call pointed out

Rufus reached into his pocket, bringing out a package of bologna and then a loaf of bread, two things that couldn’t possibly have fit in there "So they are But not for long" He opened the bologna andeach one on a plate and then carefully cutting them in halves "Now picture your favorite meal"

Call looked froic that they were supposed to be doing? Was Master Rufus suggesting that if you pictured sona would taste better? Could he read Call’s hts the whole ti hihts?" Call blurted out

Master Rufus blinked at hiisteriues can only read your thoughts if you’re projecting the, what do you think shereally hard?" he answered after a moment

"Yes," said Master Rufus "So please think very hard"

Call thought about his favorite foods, going over and over the distracted by other stuff, though, stuff that would be really funny if he pictured Like a pie that was baked inside a cake Or thirty-seven Twinkies stacked in the shape of a pyraot to think of anything The first sandwich began to spread, tendrils of bologna unfurling, coils growing across the plate Delicious sry despite the chips he’d eaten on the bus The bologna coalesced into a plate, a bowl, and a carafe -- the boas full of h it had just come out of an oven; the plate held a brownie heaped with ice creauessed was apple juice

"Wow," Aaron said, astonished "It’s exactly what I pictured But is it real?"

Master Rufus nodded "As real as the sandwich You e a thing’s shape but not its essential nature And since I didn’t alter the food’s nature, it was truly transformed Now you, Tamara"

Call wondered whether that na But at least it appeared Call wasn’t the only one who didn’t reic

Tamara stepped forward to take her tray as her food forreen stuff on one end and a bowl of soy sauce on the other With it was another plate with three round pink reen tea to drink and actually looked happy about it