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This is a beautifully written introduction to a larger document that we are not able to see - fortunately for me, since, if it were tacked on to this preface, it would be too long for me to review. Since I'm engaged in a contest in which quantity is as important as quality, I must be constantly leery of documents that will consume my time disproportionately.

So I'm glad I can read this. It's a delightful piece full of vivid description, tantalising glimpses of the wonders yet to be revealed, and the beginnings of a tale that, even in these few words, draws the reader on so that he is desperate to read more and discover the world so fleetingly revealed to him. Of course, this is exactly the job of a preface, so the piece is an excellent example of its kind. I'm no great fan of the supernatural but I found myself eager to visit this world "teetering between reality and the supernatural."

MY one possible doubt is in the ability of the daughter to understand the language of animals. This has been done before, of course, but I feel that it shifts the view of the presented world in a less refined direction. Magic is best concerned with the higher things in life and demeans itself when stooping such things as producing objects out of thin air and arranging escapes from corners that unwary writers have painted themselves into. The world promised by this introduction is surely better than that.

Or that may be just personal preference. Suffice it to say that the piece is a triumph of its genre and I am grateful to have stumbled upon it for review. Thank you.

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