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'There you are, Professor'

The chancellor flicked his baton and the troll stopped gouging and jumped into the hole he had e creature bent over and noticed that he had a tail The next i a tiny sheet of yellow s were exactly as he had described

The guardians erupted in a frenzy of excitement

'The realms exist We are vindicated '

They kept up a babble saying how clever they were and how the other guardians had got it hopelessly wrong It struck Tom that only a bunch of mindless idiots would take that sort of excavation as proof He had planned a controlled dig in which successive strata would be exposed to show that the site was pristine and his claim was not a hoax

'We shall leave for the Sixth Real another real them on They had wrecked their own real, Professor'

Their i aith them Tom wondered what their next step would be His was to stop the that he knew little about inter-realm travel and his last trip had been made entirely by accident

Crispin could scarcely believe his eyes The Lord of Light had been returned to them The pod had docked at the main terood lord was on board and the guardians were treating hireat respect

They had taken him to an ancient stone circle and it was reasonable to suppose that he was part of the evening's entertainment Tradition said it was a place where their ancestors perforuardians didn't take much interest in history but they did like to revive ancient cere the Lord of Light on the high altar of a pagan te that would appeal to them

But, it hadn't happened He had somehow convinced them that he really was from the Sixth Realm And it went uardian The chancellor had joked that he would be the youngest member of their order by at least a hundred years

Peter stood beside Crispin at the spy holes They had cli do down at the scene below The Lord of Light was sitting at the high table with the chancellor They see marvellously