Actually, if he didn't learn from the first time... but he did; he learned, "Don't slurp an entire node, even a tiny one, in one gulp, because it does bad things to a magic-user. Never mind that it all came out well in the end." Or, from another point of view, don't try to stuff ten pounds of magic into a five-pound idiot.
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.