William Bouguereau The Wave

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expanded. One moment it was a toy in the boy's hands, and the next ...
... the wizards were standing on cool grass, in a shady meadow rolling down to the lake. There was a gentle breeze blowing from the mountains; it was scented with thyme and hay. The sky was deep blue shading to purple at 'It's not bad,' he said. 'I should like to come here again.' He moved his hands in a complicated motion that seemed, in some unexplained way, to turn them inside out.
Now the wizards were back in the hall, and the boy was holding the shrinking Garden in his palm. In the heavy, shocked silence he put it back into Billias's hands, and said: 'That was quite interesting. Now I will do some magic.'the zenith.The deer watched the newcomers suspiciously from their grazing ground under the trees.Spelter looked down in shock. A peacock was pecking at his bootlaces.'-' he began, and stopped. Coin was still holding a sphere, a sphere of air. Inside it, distorted as though seen through a fish­eye lens or the bottom of a bottle, was the Great Hall of Unseen University.The boy looked around at the trees, squinted thoughtfully at the distant, snow-capped mountains, and nodded at the astonished men.