TOM+SWALE

HERE IS SOME INFORMATION ABOUT TOM SWALE

In this universe, you're not necessarily surrounded by other wizards all the time -- though you can be if you like. There are a million worlds where wizardry isn't something you feel the need to hide, where wizards out on business can hold their heads up and identify themselves for what they are. "I am on errantry, and I greet you!" is a statement which is honored and welcomed across the width of this Galaxy and its neighbors. Wizards out working the High Road can depend on friendship and a welcome from their opposite numbers wherever they are; they have "cousins" of every shape and color and size and state of matter, colleagues who breathe water, or plasma, or methane, and still have the same old Enemy in common. (See below.) But you don't have to go anything like that far for a welcome, or to meet someone who understands you, if you're a wizard. After all, somewhere between three and five percent of all human beings are wizards,1 so at least a few of them are likely to be living in your neighborhood, no matter how far away from the heart of things you think you live. Indeed, some seriously important people may live just around the corner from you: people who've saved the world...and then just gone home and gotten on with what passes (among the nonwizardly) for Real Life.™ 1There's some disagreement about the exact figure. There's //always// some disagreement about the exact figure. So what else is new?
 * Tom Swale:** The crazy guy who lives behind the high hedges in the house down at the end of his street. Never goes to work, lurks around in there all the time, some kind of weird hermit...or so all the other kids think. Nita and Kit know him better: he's one of their two local Senior wizards, a freelance advisory to any wizard who might need a particularly complicated spell for a particularly tough job. Mentor, advisor, experienced and smart, Tom is one of the people to see when you just can't think how to solve the wizardly problem that's driving you crazy. (It also doesn't hurt that he has dogs who Find Things.) But as a wizard who also makes his living writing magazine articles, commercials and short films, the question is: which frightens him more -- the Lone Power or the FedEx guy?

[] HERE IS WHERE I GOT MY INFORMATION