Editing Sir Toadswallow (section)

====The Tedds====
Some of the nether droppings he's taught came from this family, the children were impressed and became very fond of their uncle toad, he in turn cares for their well being.<ref>“Are they holding America here?” Toadswallow asked.<br><br>“I don’t know.”<br><br>“Our dame was expelled but she didn’t go home.  She didn’t go to the local jetsam-of-dry-land.  Her sister doesn’t know where she is.”<br><br>“Are you close?” Lucy asked.<br><br>“Taught them the beginnings of what they know.  I’m Uncle Toad to them.  Fine, distinguished young ladies of the upper crust, until I got to them.  They liked what I taught enough to pursue it as their specialty.”<br><br>“Their dad isn’t a big goblin mage?”<br><br>“Some.  And many other things.  There’s a reason they haven’t called him.” - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2020/12/05 Excerpt] from [[Gone Ahead 7.2]]</ref> Even if he's cautious around them as practitioners and because of their father wanted to [[Binding|bind]] him.<ref>“You guys know Toad for real, then?” Liberty asked Verona.<br><br>Verona hesitated.<br><br>“It’s nothing against you, Liberty,” Toadswallow said.  “Someone like your father wanted me on a full-time basis.  A complete and total binding, maybe as a familiar.  I wasn’t interested, so I had to drop away.”<br><br>“It sucked, seeing that the pages for summoning you were missing from the books.”<br><br>“I’ve missed you and your sister.  We’ll find a way to stay in touch.  Catch up.”<br><br>Liberty nodded.<br><br>“She’s out there?” Toadswallow asked.<br><br>“Or she’s in the big building Bristow is building.  I think she’s fully bound,” Liberty said.  “Keeping her out of the way.” - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2020/12/26 Excerpt] from [[Gone Ahead 7.7]]</ref><ref>“I left the Tedd princesses and others behind when practitioners less savvy and less powerful than you three started trying to figure out how to bind me to keep me for themselves.  The Tedds’ father wanted to use me as a bargaining chip, hoping that if he gave them ''me'', they’d do as he’d hoped and pick up more practices.”<br><br>“Is that what happened?” Verona asked.<br><br>“Don’t get sidetracked,” Lucy murmured.<br><br>“It did.  He was happy to let them pursue their interests, because he thought they’d pick up all the combat-relevant practices, and I was to be a bargaining chip to entice them further along that path.  I tore out the pages related to me and disappeared.”<br><br>“We have their number.  We could let them know,” Verona said.<br><br>Toadswallow considered, then told her, “As you wish.  I’ll leave that decision to you.  I hinted at it, but I didn’t want to give the man reasons to look harder for me.  My point is, dear girls, ''I’m'' wary.  I’m clever and capable for my size, I’m traveled, I’ve learned and I didn’t expect you to learn and work with one another like you did.  I can understand why others would vote against teaching you binding.  Or how they might worry how you changed when away at school, when you’d grown so fast already from the meager gifts we’d given you.” - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2021/03/02 Excerpt] from [[Shaking Hands 9.7]]</ref>