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HATS AND TREE BRANCHES
As Mr Henders was waiting patiently for Thordric to reply, he decided it would be rude not to buy anything. Perhaps Lizzie and his mother would like new hats, but which ones? He thought Lizzie would like something with flowers on it, but as he couldn’t choose, Mr Henders asked him what she was like.
Thordric described her to him, mentioning her motherly, but sometimes schoolteacher like ways, and, to test his reaction, her knowledge of magic.
However, Mr Henders simply nodded and then brought out a hat so perfect for her that Thordric was amazed. It was a soft cream colour, decorated with miniature wax fruits and delicate blue roses and, placed between, was a small glass vial filled with a honeyed-gold potion that Thordric knew to be one of Vey’s most recent w
