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“Never be sorry for what you are, son,” Harding said.
“The unicorn is a very noble and majestic animal!”
A bird whistled in the branches above him, and a small springwork crab puttered along on the green, clipping at patches of grass.
“Not having ice cream,” she proclaimed, “is the culmination of all disasters!
“It’s all cold,” she said. “I’ve come to the conclusion that you northerners have never experienced what it is to be really warm, so you accept a lesser substitute out of ignorance.”
“Tantrums are a noble and time-tested strategy,” she said airily. “Particularly if you have a good set of lungs and are facing down a crotchety old priest.
“Of course,” Melody said happily. “Didn’t you know that you exist to entertain me?”
“It’s a fun tradition.” “So was witch-burning,” Melody said. “Unless you were the witch.”
“Ha! We’ll turn you into a scholar yet, lad.
There’s a lot more to all of it than I once thought.” Fitch smiled. “What?” Joel asked. “What you just said is the foundation of all scholarship.”
“You will leave them alone!”
Then he drew.
Joel smiled, stilling his hands as he listened to the drawing all around him. He could almost believe himself a Rithmatist.
He wore the sturdy, yet unremarkable clothing of a servant’s son.
He watched, and felt his nervousness slowly bleed to pride.
It became six on two. Even that should have been impossible odds. It wasn’t.
Joel blinked. “What happened?” “We won, idiot,” Melody said.
