30 "Can you stop that?" Joe asked, his voice a bit whiny. "It's annoying." That just made me want to continue. But I put the balls aside. It's not like I kept over two balls in the air at the same time. "It helps me think," I said. "And it's good for hand-eye coordination, apparently." To my (and the Major's) surprise, practicing juggling made me improve faster. Now I was winning two fights out of ten. It wasn't much, but it was double the rate I had achieved previously. "I never thought your light magic tricks would work," he approvingly told Grandpa. "Do you have any other ideas?" "It's good to keep some things in the box," Grandpa said. To me, he said confidentially. "There was a lot of research the Inquisition did on magic and learning magic. And what we learned, was kept hidd

