“ ‘A wizard is only as good as his spells,’ people will often say. It is telling, however, that this statement is only made by people who have never been wizards themselves.
Those of us who have chosen to pursue a sorcerous career know that a knowledge of spells is only one small facet of the successful magician. Equally vital are a quick wit, a soothing tongue, and, perhaps most important, a thorough knowledge of back alleys, underground passageways, and particularly dense Generated by ABC Amber LIT Converter, http://www.processtext.com/abclit.html
patches of forest, for those times when the spell you knew so well doesn‘t quite work after all.”
THE TEACHINGS OF EBENEZUM, Volume I
The day was quietly beautiful, perhaps too much so. For the first time in a week, I allowed myself to forget my problems and think only of Alea. Alea! My afternoon beauty. I had only learned her name on the last day we were together, before she went on to, as she called them, “better things.” But as surely as she had left me, I knew that we might be reunited. In Vushta, anything might happen.
I woke from my reverie, instantly alert. My master, the wizard Ebenezum, greatest mage in all the Western Kingdoms, had sneezed. It could only mean one thing.
