The Magic Thief (2008)
“I kept quiet, having a lot to think about. Thirty days should be long enough to find a locus magicalicus, shouldn’t it? And what about Pettivox? He was a magister. What was he doing working with Crowe?
“Well, boy,” Nevery said, striding along. “You have provoked my curiosity. I wonder how you survived the Twilight.”
“I have quick hands,” I said. “And I was lucky.”
“Hmph,” Nevery said, pausing to open a tunnel gate. “Maybe so. But that’s not all of it. Luck and thievery didn’t raise you from a b...aby. Who did?”
Oh. “My mother,” I said.
We reached the gate leading to Heartsease. Nevery opened it and went through, and I followed him up the stairs to the courtyard. I stopped at the tree and looked west. In the branches above our heads, the black birds stirred, like leaves in a breeze. The sun had just gone down, and, in the distance, the sky over the Twilight was stained with yellowish streaks. A few dim lights shone, like stars through clouds.
Nevery tapped his cane against the cobblestones.MoreLess
“Well, boy,” Nevery said, striding along. “You have provoked my curiosity. I wonder how you survived the Twilight.”
“I have quick hands,” I said. “And I was lucky.”
“Hmph,” Nevery said, pausing to open a tunnel gate. “Maybe so. But that’s not all of it. Luck and thievery didn’t raise you from a b...aby. Who did?”
Oh. “My mother,” I said.
We reached the gate leading to Heartsease. Nevery opened it and went through, and I followed him up the stairs to the courtyard. I stopped at the tree and looked west. In the branches above our heads, the black birds stirred, like leaves in a breeze. The sun had just gone down, and, in the distance, the sky over the Twilight was stained with yellowish streaks. A few dim lights shone, like stars through clouds.
Nevery tapped his cane against the cobblestones.MoreLess
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