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to be the other way around. Ghosts avoided her because
trouble seemed to follow only half a footstep behind her,
and the haunts of Castle Roogna, like others of their kind,
were basically settled creatures. So the presence of this
one surprised Ivy, yet hardly alarmed her. She peered at
it, but the outlines were fuzzy, and she could not make
out which one it was. So she asked, "Who are you?"

"Jordan," the ghost replied faintly. It was hard for
ghosts to speak with any volume, because their volume
was mostly vapor, but they could do it when they con-
centrated.

Oh, yes. Jordan was the one who had helped Mare

Imbri save Castle Roogna from the Horseman oodles of
time ago, before she arrived on the scene. "What are you

doing?"

"Watching my history." The ghost became clearer as

she concentrated on it, shifting from amorphous cloud
shape to humped sheet shape, which was an improve-
ment.

Ivy suffered a flicker of interest. " Your history? That's

Xanth history, silly!"

"I lived in Xanth four hundred years ago," Jordan said,

becoming a vague human form.

"Was it as dull as it is now?"

"No, it was exciting!" the ghost said with greater an-
imation than before. "It was a terrific adventure—I think."

"You think?" Ivy wanted to nail this down, because if
there was anything interesting in Castle Roogna, she

wanted to find it.

"Well, 1 died from it."
Oh. "I'm about to die from boredom," Ivy asserted.

"Oh, no," Jordan protested. "You're a Sorceress. You
will grow up to be King of Xanth."