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‘Listen,’ I said, and explained some of this. ‘We have to find a way to stop Fenella, or virtually every magicker from our world will try to move here.’
‘It may be too late,’ said Alban. ‘She made a very big, very public announcement about it all, remember? As soon as her people make it home, they’ll spread the news far and wide.’
‘If they make it home.’
Alban just looked at me.
‘What if we could persuade Ashdown Castle to go home without them?’
I do not want them here! said Melmidoc.
‘Just for a little while! We need time to talk with Milady, and Their Majesties, and the Ministry, and pretty much every other magickal authority in the sixth Britain-and-beyond, and figure out how to — uh, deal with this.’
I will not have them here. Melmidoc spoke with a ringing certainty which ec
