Duane, Diane - The Wizard's Dilemma

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DIANE DUANE

The

Wizard's Dilemma

Magic Carpet Books Harcourt, Inc.

San Diego New York London

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Permissions Department, Harcourt, Inc., 6277 Sea Harbor Drive, Orlando, Florida 32887-6777.

www.HarcourtBooks.com

First Magic Carpet Books edition 2002 First published 2001

Magic Carpet Books is a trademark of Harcourt, Inc., registered in the United States of America and/or other

jurisdictions.

The Library of Congress has cataloged the hardcover edition as follows:

Duane, Diane.

The wizard's dilemma/Diane Duane. p. cm.—(The young wizards series; 5)

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Sequel to: A wizard abroad. Summary: Teenage wizard Nita travels to other universes

to find a cure for her mother, who has brain cancer. [1. Wizards—Fiction. 2. Cancer—Fiction. 3. Fantasy.]

I. Title.

PZ7.D84915Wk 2001 [Fie]—dc21 00-12998

ISBN 0-15-202551-0 ISBN 0-15-202460-3 pb

Text set in Stempel Garamond Design by Trina Stahl

C E G H F D B

Printed in the United States of America

For Jason Gamble, the favorite nephew,

and

for Sam's friend's daughter... both members of the next generation

Contents

Friday Afternoon 1

Friday, Early Evening 21

Friday Evening 37

Friday Night 66

Saturday Morning and Afternoon 83

Saturday Afternoon and Evening 121

Saturday Evening 133

Sunday Morning 149

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Sunday Afternoon and Evening 172

Monday Morning and Afternoon 182

Monday Night, Tuesday Morning 193

Tuesday Morning and Afternoon 213

Tuesday Evening 228

Late Tuesday Evening 245

Late Tuesday Night,

Wednesday Morning

264

Wednesday 292

Thursday 320

Friday Morning 330

Friday Afternoon 354

Dawn 396

The revelation of some uneasy secrets would move most anything, even pigs and fishes, to lift their heads and

speak: and at such times it furthers one to cross the great dark water and learn the truth its silent shadows hide.

In the wet, reedy evening, birdsong echoes,

old calling young, eventually answered;

while another stands in the dark and calls its fellow,

hearing for answer only the ancient silence

in which tears fall, under a moon near-full.

The lead horse breaks the traces and goes astray

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to cry its clarion challenge harsh at heaven.

Understandably. But can it understand in time

the danger that dogs immoderate success?...

—hexagram 61

"a, wind troubles the waters"

If Time has a heart, it is because other hearts stop.

—Book of Night with Moon 9.V.IX

Friday Afternoon

"HONEY, HAVE YOU SEEN your sister?"

"She's on Jupiter, Mom."

There was no immediate response to this piece of news. Sitting at a dining-room table covered with

notebooks, a few schoolbooks, and one book that had less to do with school than the others, Nita

Callahan glanced over her shoulder just in time to catch sight of her mother looking at the ceiling with

an expression that said, What have I done to deserve this?

Nita turned her head back to what looked like her homework, so that her mother wouldn't see her smile.

"Well, yeah, not on Jupiter; it's hard to do that... She's on Europa."

Her mother came around and sat down in the chair opposite Nita at the table, looking faintly concerned.

"She's not trying to create life again or something, is she?"

Friday Afternoon

"Huh? Oh, no. It was there already. But there was some kind of problem."

The look on her mother's face was difficult to decipher. "What kind?"

"I'm not sure," Nita said, and this was true. She had read the mission statement, which had appeared in

her copy of the wizard's manual shortly after Dairine left, but the fine print had made little sense to her—

probably the reason why she or some other wizard had not been sent to deal with the trouble, and

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Dairine had. "It's kind of hard to understand what single-celled organisms consider a problem." She

made an amused face. "But it looks like Dairine's the answer to it."

"All right." Her mom leaned back in the chair and stretched. "When will she be back?"

"She didn't say. But there's a limit to how much air you can carry with you on one of these jaunts if

you're also going to have energy to spare to actually get anything done," Nita said. "Probably a couple of

hours."

"Okay...We don't have to have a formal dinner tonight. Everyone can fend for themselves. Your dad

won't mind; he's up to his elbows in shrubs right now, anyway." The buzz of the hedge trimmer could

still be heard as Nita's dad worked his way around the house. "We can take care of the food shopping

later... There's no rush. Is Kit coming over?"

Nita carefully turned the notebook page she'd been working on. "Uh, no. I have to go out and see him in

a little while, though... Someone's meeting us to finish up a project. Probably it'll take us an hour or two,

don't wait for me. I'll heat something up when I get home."

"Okay." Her mother got up and went into the kitchen, where she started opening cupboards and peering

into them. Nita looked after her with mild concern when she heard her mom's tired sigh. For the past

month or so, her mom had been alternating between stripping and refinishing all the furniture in the

house and leading several different projects for the local PTA-^the biggest of them being the effort to

get a new playground built near the local primary school. It seemed to Nita that her mother was always

either elbow deep in steel wool and stain, or out of the house on errands, so often that she didn't have a

lot of spare time for anything else.

After a moment Nita heaved a sigh. TVb point in trying to weasel around it, though, she thought. I've

got problems of my own.

Kit...

But it's not his fault...

Is it?

Nita was still recovering from an overly eventful vacation in Ireland, one her parents had planned for

her, to give Nita a little time away from Kit, and from wizardry. Of course, this hadn't worked. A

wizard's work can happen anywhere, and just changing continents couldn't have stopped Nita from being

involved in it any more than changing planets could have. As for Kit, he'd found ways to be with Nita

regardless—which turned out to have been a good thing. Nita had been

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