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## Good God How It Hurts to get Kicked in the Nuts
A few days passed. I spent most of my time in the laboratory trying to extract the essence of Luna’s missing mother from the lock of hair I had been given.
It was going slowly. For some reason, the lock of hair refused to yield its essence to me. There was more here than met my wizard’s eye, that much was very clear. I didn’t want to go back to the office until I was done. I cast a spell to change the message on the door to the office so my clients wouldn’t think I had just forgot about them. Which had happened, more than once.
*Out on Important Magical Mission*, the sign now read. *All appointments will be rescheduled to a later date.*
It was at times like these that I wished that I had a secretary. But the last ones I had summoned had behaved so badly towards the clients that I had lost more business than I had gained. I did at one point consider hiring a mortal secretary, but I’m not really apt on the human resource side of things. Especially as I am of the firm standpoint that secretaries shall be female and too much mind control makes a woman soft.