"'Welcome to this house, lad,' the doorkeeper said, and without saying more led him through halls and corridors to an open court far inside the walls of the building. The court was paved with stone, but was roofless, and on a grass-plot a fountain played under young trees in the sunlight. There Ged waited alone some while.
He stood still, and his heart beat hard, for it seemed to him that he felt presences and powers at work unseen about him here, and he knew that this place was built not only of stone but of magic stronger than stone. He stood in the innermost room of the House of the Wise, and it was open to the sky.
Then suddenly he was aware of a man clothed in white who watched him through the falling water of the fountain."
That's an excerpt from the Cornflower Book Group September book. If you'd like to join us in reading it you'll find all the details here.
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