Good luck!

SO

It's a joke, Nita thought. Really. And to her own amazement, she wouldn't herself — she was too fascinated. She turned to the next chapter.

An aptitude for wizardry requires more than just the desire to practice the art. There are certain inborn tendencies, and some acquired ones, that enable a person to become a wizard. This chapter will list some of the better documented of wizardly characteristics. Please bear in mind that it isn't necessary to possess all the qualities listed, or even most of them. Some of the greatest wizards have been lacking in the qualities possessed by almost all others and have still achieved startling competence levels.

Slowly at first, then more eagerly, Nita began working her way through the assessment chapter, pausing only to get a pencil and scrap paper from the checkout desk, so that she could make notes on her aptitude. She was brought up short by the footnote to one page— Where ratings are not assigned, as in rural areas, the area of greatest population density will usually produce the most wizards, due to the thinning of worldwalls with increased population concentration…

Nita stopped reading, amazed. "Thinning of worldwalls" — were they saying that there are other worlds, other dimensions, and that things could get through? Things, or people?

She sat there and wondered. All the old fairy tales about people falling down wells into magical countries, or slipping backward in time, or forward into it — did this mean that such things could actually happen? If you could actually go into other worlds, other places, and come back again…

Aww — who would believe anybody who came back and told a story like that? Even if they took pictures?

But who cares! she answered herself fiercely. If only it could be true….