The Concuspidor:

Well, that's the Grand Wizard sorted out. Hopelessly trapped in an endless loop of questions, so he won't notice the disappearance of his Answers.

What an excellent plan this turned out to be. Quite masterful. The only weak link, of course, is everybody else who's involved in it. Well, Cog, anyway. I can't make things any easier for him than I have done - putting the Wizard out of commission for the duration - so surely he can't get anything wrong now. On the other hand, I do have a generous capacity for consistently overestimating the small fellow's ability. I just can't come to write him off as the wretched waste of space he surely is, despite the overwhelming history of evidence which I have to ignore when trying to find him worthwhile, because there's something about him which I have to admit I find endearing... I think... yes, there was something, what was it now?

Ah yes, I remember... he's cheap. No, not cheap. Free. Yes, that's it... better go and see how he's getting on then, I suppose. Probably have to bail him out of whatever trouble he's almost certainly got himself into...

On the Outside of the Wizard's Tower
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