This chapter's epigraph comes from a famous line from Shakespeare's play Hamlet, in which Hamlet explains that one of the most important things a sorcerer must do when transforming is to avoid being wounded. When a transformation is undone, the body also takes the same wound, so the first thing a sorcerer does is to remove whatever is penetrating. This is especially important when a transformation occurs in the middle of a storm, when the wind is blowing, or when a person is being stabbed in the chest. When the transformation is over, however, the wound will still be there. So, for example, if a sorcerer is stabbed, he must remove the wound from his body. When