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"A little More theory than practice, of course" Fogg chuckled "So those lines Penny, I think his name was Can’t have been his real name"

"He was in my year William was his real nahe--spent quite a bit of ti on that very subject She’s retired now, of course What would be the nature of your interest, exactly--?"

"Well, I always liked hi haplessly "Penny Willia around, but nobody’s seen hiot his hands bitten off by an insane godling "And I thought you ht have--crossed over?"

"Sure" Why not "Yeah"

"Well," Fogg said He stroked his goatee, o around handing out inforht without their consent It wouldn’t be proper"

"I’ht have heard so"

The springs of Fogg’s chair squawked as he leaned forward

"My dear boy," he said, "I hear all sorts of things, but I can’t repeat theed for you to recuse yourself with that fir people where you’d ended up?"

"I suppose not"

"But if you’re really interested in Penny’s whereabouts, I’d advise you to start your search in this reality"--dry chuckle!--"rather than soht They shouldn’t have co around hi in the direction of an adolescent tantru to talk to his parents He lost all perspective on who he was and how far he’d come He really couldn’t believe the awe in which he used to hold this , Gandalfian wizard he once cowered before had been swapped out and replaced with a s" Quentin clapped his hands on his knees "Actually I think we’d better behadn’tthis conversation a little further I’ve heard some pretty exotic rumors about what you and your friends have been up to these past few years The undergraduates talk about it You’re quite the caend, you know"

Now Quentin did stand up

"Well," he said "Kids Don’t believe everything you hear"

"I assure you I don’t" Fogg’s eyes had regained their old flinty spark from somewhere "But a word of advice fronorance of interdiht be, but I do know perfectly well that you never liked him And no one’s heard froh or Alice Quinn in years, either Or Janet Pluchinsky"

Quentin noticed that Josh didn’t figure in Fogg’s h he probably would have gotten the same answer

"And now you’ve turned up dressed very oddly, and you’ve brought a civilian onto the grounds, one of our rejections if I’ we ordinarily tolerate I don’t knohat you’re mixed up in, but I’ve put myself out for you over the years, quite a bit, and I have the reputation and the security of the school to think of"

Aha There’s the Fogg he used to know and fear Not gone, he’d just been playing possuhty schoolboy he used to be

"Oh, I do know that, Dean Fogg Believetoo deep, Quentin Don’t stir Shit Up" Fogg enunciated the obscenity crisply "Right now you have the air of somebody who thinks he knows better Huic knows better, not you Do you reic isn’t ours I don’t knohose it is, but we’ve got it on loan, on loan at best It’s like what poor Professor March used to say about the turtles Don’t bait theh for anyone"

Easy for you to say You’ve only ever seen one