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After he passes the wizard's test proving he has magical powers, Dayven apprentices to the drunken wizard Reddick--but only to spy out whether the wizards are betraying the occupying Tharn to the subjugated Cenzar. Examining prejudice (Dayven's, against wizards) as well as the more nuanced thinking that sometimes replaces it, Bell adds to her oeuvre of canny, politically themed fantasies.