The Five Fakirs of Faizabad (2010)
“SWARASWATI’S FEAR OF FLYING In a quiet field behind the black ruins of St. Archibald’s Cathedral on the top of Bumby’s forbidding North Cliff, Philippa rolled out her sapphire-blue flying carpet under an enormous gray cloud and prepared for takeoff, which is to say she sat down and gathered her thoughts prior to uttering her new focus word.
She had given a great deal of thought to devising a new focus word and had come up with an even longer word than her previous word, which was: FABULONGOSHOO...MARVELISHLYWONDERPIPICAL. Philippa had chosen a new word that was easy for her to remember and articulate but which, at the same time, was extremely time consuming to say. The simple fact of the matter was that lately she was more than a little in awe of her own djinn power and had concluded it might be better to have a focus word that was so very long she might still be able to change her mind about using djinn power before she finished saying it; in which case she might leave the rest of the word unspoken.MoreLess
She had given a great deal of thought to devising a new focus word and had come up with an even longer word than her previous word, which was: FABULONGOSHOO...MARVELISHLYWONDERPIPICAL. Philippa had chosen a new word that was easy for her to remember and articulate but which, at the same time, was extremely time consuming to say. The simple fact of the matter was that lately she was more than a little in awe of her own djinn power and had concluded it might be better to have a focus word that was so very long she might still be able to change her mind about using djinn power before she finished saying it; in which case she might leave the rest of the word unspoken.MoreLess
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