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Book 5 of the Young Wizard series

The revelation of some uneasy secrets would move most anything, even pigs and fishes, to lift their heads and speak: and at such times it furthers one

to cross the great dark water and learn the truth its silent shadows hide.

In the wet, reedy evening, birdsong echoes, old calling young, eventually answered; while another stands in the dark and calls its fellow, hearing for

answer only the ancient silence in which tears fall, under a moon near-full. The lead horse breaks the traces and goes astray to cry its clarion

challenge harsh at heaven. Understandably. But can it understand in time the danger that dogs immoderate success ...  hexagram 61

"a, wind troubles the waters"

If Time has a heart, it is because other hearts stop.  Book of Night with Moon 9.V.IX

Friday Afternoon

"HONEY, HAVE YOU SEEN your sister " "She's on Jupiter, Mom."

There was no immediate response to this piece of news. Sitting at a dining-room table covered with notebooks, a few schoolbooks, and one book that had

less to do with school than the others, Nita Callahan glanced over her shoulder just in time to catch sight of her mother looking at the ceiling with an

expression that said, What have I done to deserve this

Nita turned her head back to what looked like her homework, so that her mother wouldn't see her smile. "Well, yeah, not on Jupiter; it's hard to do

that... She's on Europa."

Her mother came around and sat down in the chair opposite Nita at the table, looking faintly concerned. "She's not trying to create life again or

something, is she "

Friday Afternoon

"Huh  Oh, no. It was there already. But there was some kind of problem." The look on her mother's face was difficult to decipher. "What kind "