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Hisarms hung at his sides and he was staring at the floor. The fort appeared to have started out life as a windmill, but had recently received allsorts of additions in the way of bastions, battlements and gun embrasures. Instantly the room became bitter-cold and a handful of snow flakes blew infrom outside. But why would the magician give him a finger? he wondered.