“Could he see through your disguises?” Aahz asked, staring at me.
I tried to remember back to the day. I had used my standard disguise spell, and on that dimension, the spell had not been hard. Most of the residents stood four feet tall, and had two feet. Compared to disguising Tanda and me as slugs on one of the previous dimensions, that had been easy. But the beggar had clearly picked me out of a crowd, and he seemed out of place among the short people, being almost five feet tall.
I looked at Aahz and nodded.
“Maybe. But I don’t know how he could have.”
Aahz waved his hand in disgust.
“Apprentice, there are a thousand ways, especially with someone so unpracticed as you.”
I said nothing. No point in even trying to defend my talents. Aahz always won those conversations by making me try something I couldn’t yet do. And that was just about everything when it came to magik. But making disguises is my best ability.
Aahz spun around and moved back to the window, keeping the map with him. He stood there, staring out over the courtyard, letting the silence in the room just build and build. And if there was one thing I hated more than anything, it was the sound of someone thinking, without telling me what they were thinking about.
“So, is there such a golden cow?” I asked, moving over and standing beside him in the big window so he couldn’t ignore me.
In the courtyard below the window, Gleep was running in circles chasing his tail. Thank heavens he wasn’t near anything, because when a dragon started chasing his tail, things got knocked down, trampled, and just flat destroyed. Especially when it was young dragon.