He keeps busy investigating the cause of the reduction in magic and doesn't really have time for the boy. Nevery has returned to Wellmet, from which he was exiled twenty years before, drawn by the fact that the magic of the city has been inexplicably dwindling. Then they realise that Conn has magic and needs to be taught - but he hasn’t yet found his own locus magicalicus. Intrigued by the fact that Conn is unharmed, Nevery takes him home to be his apprentice, despite the fact that he isn't interested in maintaining a household and doesn’t really want an apprentice. One day he gets caught by the mage, Nevery, when he picks his pocket and steals his locus magicalicus - a wizard's magic stone, specific to him, which focuses power. Conn is a gutterboy thief who lives in the Twilight district of the city of Wellmet. I borrowed this from my children's school library and apparently I also borrowed it three years ago as an e-book from the local library (when I noted that the e-format diminishes the impact of the pencil drawings).
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