From Games Wizards Play chapter 8, “Hempstead / Mumbai”:
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“Though still, even in a protected place like that,” [Mehrnaz’s mother] Dori
said, “there will, after all, still be a lot of unfamiliar wizards—”
“Seniors,”
Dairine said with a put upon roll of the eyes, “and Advisories all over
the place, peering over our shoulders all the time…”
“—and some of those wizards will be boys–”
Mehrnaz
suddenly became very interested in the plate of biscuits to her right
on the table, so that her face was turned away from her Mama’s while she
considered which one to pick next. Dairine, though, was positioned to
see her mentoree’s panicked expression through Spot’s eyes, as he was
sitting on Mehrnaz’s far side.
Uh huh, Dairine thought. There we go. “Boys?” she said, incredulous, and laughed. “Dori, both of us are going to be way too busy with this to be thinking about boys. We’ve got work to do.”
“Well, yes, but it’s always when we’re thinking about other matters that things happen, isn’t it?”
And when Dori looked away while saying this, Dairine became absolutely sure she was thinking, Because it did with me.
“That is not going to be allowed to occur,” Dairine said. “Boys have their place in life, but not for the next two weeks.”
“Ah. And you don’t have a boyfriend either, then?”
Dairine looked Dori straight in the eye, and said in the Speech, “I have absolutely no interest in any guy on this planet.”
Mehrnaz’s
mother’s eyes widened at the sudden change of language. Then she looked
very relieved. “Oh well, that’s all right then,” she said…
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