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climbing equivalent knocked his hat off.
What made it worse was that Esme Weatherwax seemed to avoid all of them.
“How do you manage that?”
“I just know where I am all the time,” said Granny.
“Well? I know where / am, too.”
“No you don’t. You just happen to be present. That’s not the same.”
“Well, do you happen to know where a proper path is?”
“This is a “Wait a minute!”
“Entirely the wrong sort of clothes for the country!”
“I wasn’t expecting a hike through the woods! This is ceremonial damn costume!”short cut.”“Between two places where you’re not lost, d’you mean?”“I keep tellin’ you, I ain’t lost! I’m . . . directionally chal-lenged.”“Hah!”But it was a fact about Esme Weatherwax, he had to admit. She might be lost, and he had reason to suspect this was the case now, unless there were in this forest two trees with exactly the same arrangement of branches and a strip of his robe caught on one of them, but she did have a quality that in anyone not wearing a battered pointy hat and an antique black dress might have been called poise. Absolute poise. It would be hard to imagine her making an awkward movement unless she wanted to.LQRD6 fittO Lft0/£6He’d seen that years ago, although of course at the time he’d just been amazed at the way her shape fitted perfectly into the space around it. And—He’d got caught up again.
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