"Our sail," Gildmirth explained, "is one of the things we must pick up from my quarters. You'll forgive my resting now when you understand the labor I have undertaken for you.""We are delighted to help," I grunted. "And so? Please go on. What can you tell us about Wimfort?""Wimfort?""The boy we're after.""Oh. Little more than why he made his mistake about bonshads. You see, Balder Xolot's Thaumaturge's Pocket Pandect has a mistake in it. And in the hundred and twelve years since he published it, it's been disastrous to all that class of people who study not at all, and yet buy serious spells by the lot. For all such go-to-market magi are quite correctly informed that of all abridgers and condensers of Power Lore, Xolot is unquestionably the best. Alas, he was human. In his transcription of the Paleo-Archaic texts concerning Sazmazm, he misread the word parn-shtadha. This is a rare variant of the more usual sh't-parndha, which one need have no Paleo-Archaic to recognize as meaning no one, so close is it to High Archaic's hesha't pa-harnda.
