Whizzard! (Tales Of The Dark Forest)

Plot

" ... Tym is determined to be a Wizard, but he isn't the seventh son of a seventh son. He's only the first of a second, which doesn't amount to much even when you multiply it. But when Tym, prompted by the mysterious Dreamwalker, mixes potions past their spell-by date, he finds that he is able to move faster than the human eye can follow. He has become -not a Wizard -but a Whizzard. The King of Thieves and his son, Cutpurse Colin, discover Tym's new power. A bungled burglary thrust Tym and Colyn into a desperate race against time to save the Lady Zamarind. But the way bristles with danger. Unco-operative Gnomes, Gobblings and a pitiless Pirate Queen -and that's before they confront the legendary Cumhera, from whose realm no traveller has ever returned ..." www.the2steves.net/dfwizz.htm Site accessed 25/05/2006.