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"Very well," Sophie said. "I'll stay. Now find an excuse."
She settled herself comfortably in the chair while the demon thought. It thought aloud, in a
little crackling, flickering murmur, which reminded Sophie rather of the way she had talked to her stick
when she walked here. And it blazed while it thought with such a glad powerful roaring that she dozed
again. She thought the demon did make a few suggestions. She remembered shaking her head to the
notion that she should pretend to be Howl's long- lost great- aunt, and to two other ones even more farfetched,
but she did not remember very clearly. The demon at length fell to singing a gentle, flickering
little song. It was not in any language Sophie knew- or she thought not, until she distinctly heard the
word "saucepan" in it several times- and it was very sleepy- sounding. Sophie fell into a deep sleep,
with a slight suspicion that she was being bewitched now, as well as beguiled, but it did not bother her
particularly. She would be free of the spell soon.....
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