Beach. That's tons of toxic sludge every month. Without those routines "

Kit closed his eyes and rubbed the bridge of his nose in a way Nita had seen Tom, their local advisory wizard, do more than once when the world started

to get to him. "Neets, this is all just too involved. Or involved in the wrong way. You're making it more complicated than it needs to be."

Oh no... here we go again. I thought he was going to get it this time, I really did... "But if you don't name all the chemicals, if you don't describe

them accurately "

"The thing is, you don't have to name them all. If you just take a look at the spell I brought with " Friday Afternoon

"Kit, look. That stripped-down version you're suggesting isn't going to do the job. And the longer we don't do something, the worse the problem gets!

Everything that lives along this shoreline is being affected... whatever's still alive, anyway. Things are dying out there, and every time we go back to

the drawing board on this, more things die. Getting this wizardry running has taken too long already."

"Tell me about it," Kit said in a tone that struck Nita as a lot more ironic than it needed to be.

And after all the work I did! she thought. Nonetheless she tried to calm down. "All right. What do you think we should do "

"Maybe," Kit said, and paused, "maybe it would be good if we let S'reee take a look at both versions. If she thinks "

Nita's eyes widened. "Since when do we need a third opinion on something this straightforward  Kit, it'll either do what it's supposed to or it won't.

Let's test it and find out!"

He took a deep breath and shook his head. "I can tell already, it's not going to do what we need."

She stared at Kit, not knowing what to say, and then after a moment she got up and stared down at him, trying to keep from clenching her fists. "Well,