Desperate to hide the evidence, he climbed a ladder with a brown magic marker and colored the wood in.

为了掩盖证据，他爬上了梯子，用棕色的神奇标记笔给树枝上了色。

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"I mislike the feel of this forest," the elder of the two hunters grumbled. "Creatures that live in a unicorn's wood learn a little magic of their own in time, mainly concerned with disappearing."

“我不喜欢这片森林的气氛，”年长的猎人嘟囔着抱怨道，“住在独角兽居住的森林里的动物，多少也学会了一点魔力，比如突然消失什么的。”

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Bink's friend had used his magic to escape, animating a golem from a stick of wood that took his place. The golem had resembled him exactly, so that it fooled the pranksters.

宾克的朋友把一截树枝变成了一个和自己一模一样的傀儡，这一招蒙蔽了那些捣蛋鬼，他则趁机逃掉。

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The key is to catch the wood after the magic has begun, but before it gets too punky.

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She insisted on this part, and my father later backed her up: the magic was not just that the drum of a solid wood object without batteries rotated but that it did so only when unobserved, stopping whenever observed.

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