“No magical alarm sounded, though I did hit my head five times on a pebble†.
†Once each on five different pebbles. Not the same pebble five times. Just want to make that clear. Sometimes you human beings are so dense.”

—  Jonathan Stroud , book The Amulet of Samarkand

The Amulet of Samarkand (2003)

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