“Everyone leaned over the map and examined it with interest. Here was a tangible thing to look at, to make them feel that something was being accomplished. Everything’s under control, Lord Darcy said wryly to himself, we have a map.”

— Michael Kurland , book Ten Little Wizards

Source: Ten Little Wizards (1988), Chapter 6 (p. 51)

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