Edward Hopper Night Windows

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Cutangle's mouth snapped shut.
Esk and Simon were lying on a table in one of the side readingrooms, with half a dozen wizards watching over them. They drew back nervously as the trio approached, with the librarian swinging along behind.
"I've been thinking," said Cutangle. "Surely it would be better to give the staff to Simon? He is a wizard, and -"
"Over my dead body," said Granny. "Yours, too. They're getting their power through him, do you want to give them more?"
Cutangle sighed. He had been admiring the staff, it was one of the best he had seen.
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Granny sat down on a pile of books and rubbed her eyes. Cutangle's hands strayed towards his tobacco pocket. The wizard with the nervous cough was helped out of the room by a colleague.
"Ook," said the librarian.
"I know!" said Granny, so out of his nerveless well. You're right, of course." He leaned down and laid the staff on Esk's sleeping form, and then stood back dramatically. Nothing happened. One of the wizards coughed nervously. Nothing continued to happen. The carvings on the staff appeared to be grinning. "It's not working," said Cutangle, "is it?" "Ook." "Give it time," said Granny. They gave it time. Outside the