Isodel looked sad, and brave, and wonderful. "Don't you see, Isodel? It's _impossible_ for me to do the _right_ thing. If it wasn't Lad, it would be another dog, and if it wasn't a Familiar to make me a Witch, it would be something else to make me different, because I am different. I have to live with that. Among the right people, I am the left man." So he left her, and walked out of the Floating Gardens onto the walkway and Lad fell in at his side, and he listened without anger to the hushings and keenings of the crowd. "Witch! Witch!" End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Mindsnake, by Jim Harmon