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Wizard’s Holiday
By Diane Duane
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Diane Duane’s
Young Wizards Series

So You Want to Be a Wizard
Deep Wizardry
High Wizardry
A Wizard Abroad
The Wizard’s Dilemma
A Wizard Alone

Copyright © 2003 by Diane Duane

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For Virginia Heinlein
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Unending stairs reach up the mountain above you,
And you keep climbing, while the welcoming voices
Cheer you along. They make the long climb easier,
Though the gift you’re bringing may to you seem small.
Don’t worry, it’s what they need: For all the cheering,
See how empty the streets are? Take your time.
Make your way upward steadily toward what waits,
Through day’s blind radiance to the city’s pinnacle,
And fall up the last few steps into empty sky....
—hexagram 46, Sheng
“Onward and Upward”

“With me, a change of trouble is as good as a vacation.”
—David Lloyd George (1863-1945)

What, can the Devil speak true?
 —William Shakespeare,
Macbeth, I, iii

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That Getaway Urge
It was the Friday afternoon before the start of spring break. The weather was nothing
like spring. It was cold and gray outside; the wind hissed unrepentantly through the
still-bare limbs of the maple trees that lined the street, and in that wind the rain was
blowing horizontally from west to east, seemingly right into the face of the girl, in
parka and jeans, running down the sidewalk toward her driveway. Except for her, the