Hex dreamed gently in its room. The wizards were right. Hex couldn’t think. There weren’t words, yet, for what it could do. Even Hex didn’t know what it could do. But it was going to find out. The quill pen scritched and blotted its way over a fresh sheet of paper and drew, for no good reason, a calendar for the year surmounted by a rather angular picture of a beagle, standing on its hind legs.
