When the King is mad, it is an honor to be an exile. - Bruce Coville

Odds of a worm migration coming this way — about a billion to one. Odds of Elspeth improving her behavior without help — about the same. Sleep well, young friends.

I knew Pop would get me out of the coffin. But I had feeling when he did I might wish I was back inside it again.

"I like fixing things," he said as he worked. "The world is always breaking, here and there, this way and that. Fix a bit of it, and I feel like I'm helping."