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“He did not say much, but he resolved that he would prove himself to her. He told her to come again to the meadow tomorrow, if she liked, and so took leave of her, and came back to the house while his master was still out.” (pg. 29) He works a spell that he shouldn't “As he read it, puzzling out the runes and symbols one by one, a horror came over him. His eyes were fixed, and he could not lift them till he had finished reading all the spell.” (pg. 30) “ ‘You do not remember what I told you, that the girl's mother is an enchantress?’ Indeed Ogion had once said this, but Ged had not paid much attention, though he knew by now that Ogion never told him anything that he had no good reason to tell.” (pg.31) “Ged listen to me now. Have you never …show more content…

It sundered, and a pale spindle of light gleamed between his opened arms, a faint oval reaching from the ground up to the height of his raised hand. In the oval of light for a moment there moved a form, a human shape: a tall woman looking back over her shoulder. Her face was beautiful, and sorrowful, and full of fear.” (pg. 84) “That bright misshapen breach clambered something like a clot of black shadow, quick and hideous, and it leaped straight out at Ged’s face.” (pg. 84) “It was like a black beast, the size of a young child, though it seemed to swell and shrink; and it had no head or face, only the four taloned paws with which it gripped and tore.” (pg. 85) 3. Used power wrongly to preserve pride at Low Torning “Hearing the mother's wail, and seeing the trust Pechvarry had in him, Ged did not know how he could disappoint them. He mistrusted his own judgement, and thought perhaps the child might be saved.” (pg. 111) “Summoning his power all at once and with no thought for himself, he sent his spirit out after the child's spirit, to bring it back home.” (pg. …show more content…

And to do that, my son, even to so small a scrap to the world, is to change the world. It can be done. Indeed it can be done. It is the art of the Master Changer, and you will learn it, when you are ready to learn it. But you must not change one thing, one pebble, one grain of sand, until you know what good and evil will follow on that act. The world is in balance, in Equilibrium. A wizard’s power of Changing and of Summoning can shake the balance of the world. It is dangerous, that power. It is most perilous. It must follow knowledge, and serve need. To light a candle is to cast a shadow” (pg.

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