Thief of Time - Special

'Sweeper, no one can outrun lightning!'

Lu-Tze spun round and grabbed Lobsang by the robe, dragging him closer.

'Then tell me where to run, speedy boy!' he shouted. 'There's more to you than meets the third eye, lad! No apprentice should be able to find Zimmerman's Valley! It takes hundreds of years of training! And no one should be able to make the spinners sit up and dance to his tune the very first time he sees them! Think I'm daft, do you? Orphan boy, strange power... what the hell are you? The Mandala knew you! Well, I'm just a mortal human, and what I know is, I'll be damned if I'll see the world shattered a second time! So help me! Whatever it is you've got, I need it now! Use it!'

He let go, and stood back. A vein in his bald head was throbbing.

'But I don't know what I can do to-'

'Find out what you can do!’

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The Thief of Time - p224-225