11
FIXING THE APPLE CART
Despite what Morweena had said about Thordric cleaning and decorating a room each day, as soon as he was done shrinking the books in his room, she waved him off out the door so that he could go and explore the town.
He didn’t complain; now was his chance to search for any half-wizards that might need his help and, the sooner he was able to do that, the sooner he could go home. It wasn’t that he disliked Neathin Valley – had he gone there under normal circumstances, he would have found its strangely decorated houses and winding streets charming – but it was hard to appreciate it all when first he had been treated as a kind of criminal and now as a housekeeper and decorator.
Half suspicious that something else would happen, he tentatively stepped off Morweena’s d
