Okay,  he said toPonch .  You ready 

Yeahyeahyeahyeah!

 Good. Stay close to me. This thing only has about a six-foot radius.  He draped the invisibility spell over his shoulder for a moment, stuck the chain of the transit spell into the belt of his parka, and reached down into the  pocket  for his wizard s manual.  Now then,  he said. He flipped it open, and the pages riffled to the spot he d bookmarked. He ran a finger down the listing of functions on that page.  Location and detection  cross-reference to personnel listings Right.  The locator spell blocked out on the page rearranged itself to include Darryl s listing, and the listing itself pulsed to indicate that it was  in circuit  with the rest of the spell and ready to go.

 This is a temporal-spatial locator routine with sync to an existing transit nexus now balanced for two,  Kit said in the Speech.  Purpose: Locate and identify the wizard in the listing. Additional info: Linkage to stealth routine referenced on page   He stopped and had to check his other bookmark, on the cloaking spell s page, because the manual s pagination was constantly changing, depending on Kit s needs (and sometimes its own). Three-eighty-nine. Ready 

The whole spell pulsed bright on the page as he turned back to it. Slowly Kit started reading, making sure of his pronunciation, and that his andPonch s names were correctly entered. The usual waiting silence of the universe leaning in around them to hear the Speech spoken and implement it now started to build.Ponch sat there with his big eyes glinting and his tail thumping as the power of the spell built all around them. Kit felt a brief pang because of the absence of the other voice that usually would have been there, reading her half of the work, but there was no time for the feeling right now. Kit finished the spell, snapped the manual shut, and in the moment before the spell worked, flipped the cloaking routine over himself andPonch .