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"I'm Martha. And you are...?"
A small snuffle, a smaller voice. "Nathaniel."

— Jonathan Stroud The Amulet of Samarkand (2003)

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As part of my current charge I have been instructed to provide an occasional journal of my recent activities*.

Today summoned painfully to earth by a short fat English magician with a dangerous stammer*.

The temperature of the room dropped fast.

The Amulet of Samarkand (2003)

Perhaps he'd want me to conjure up an illusion. That might be fun: there was bound to be a way of misinterpreting his request and upsetting him†.

The Amulet of Samarkand (2003)

No magical alarm sounded, though I did hit my head five times on a pebble†.

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