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Schmendrick had thought to find the Bull waiting in his lair, or in some wide place with room enough to do battle. But he had come silently up the passageway to meet them; and now he stood across their sight, not only from one burning wall to the other, but somehow in the walls themselves, and beyond them, bending away forever. Yet he was no mirage, but the Red Bull still, steaming and snuffling, shaking his blind head. His jaws champed over his breath with a terrible wallowing sound.slowly to his feet, ignoring the Bull, listening only to his cupped self, as to a sea-shell. But no power stirred or spoke in him; he could hear nothing but the far, thin howling of emptiness against his ear; as old King Haggard must have heard it waking and sleeping, and never another sound. It will not come to me. Nikos was wrong. I am what I seem.
The Lady Amalthea had stepped back a pace from the Bull, but no more, and she was regarding him
Now. Now is the time, whether I work ruin or great good. This is the end of it. The magician rose
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