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Instead he squinted over my shoulder at the scene outside. "Kid," he said. "Tell me you're practicing. Tell me you haven't really scrounged up another stupid dragon to make our lives miserable." "I'm practicing!" I hastened to reassure him. To prove the point, I quickly restored Buttercup's normal appearance. "Gleep!" said Gleep happily, and the two of them were off again. I said innocently to head off his Then Dumbledore pulled next caustic remark. "Where would I find another dragon in this dimension?" "If there was one to be found here on Klah, you'd find it," he snarled. "As I recall, you didn't have that much trouble finding this one the first time I turned my back on you, Apprentices! " He turned and retreated out of the sunlight into the dim interior of the inn. "If I recall," I commented, following Home wild dances him, "that was at the Bazaar on Deva. I couldn't get another dragon there because you won't teach me how to travel through the dimensions." "Get off my case, kid!" he moaned. "We've been over it a thousand times. Dimension traveling is dangerous. Look at me! Stranded without my powers in a back-assward dimension like Klah, where the lifestyle is barbaric and the food is disgusting." "You lost your powers because Garkin laced his special effects cauldron with that joke powder and Son of Adam then got killed before he could give you the antidote," I pointed out. "Watch out how you talk about your old teacher," Aahz warned. "The old slime-monger was inclined to get carried away with practical jokes once in a while, true. But he was a master magician .zm
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