Pater Tempus is a master of Time Magic, and a founding member of the Grand Hall of Sinister Wisdom. Randall often thought that Pater Tempus had chosen young Larry Porter as a joke: the long pale face, the glasses, the crescent moon shaped scar on his forehead. Or maybe he’d done it because Porter was a natural born doormat. Porter held up the small person in his arms. Pater Tempus had the body of a yearling baby and the head of a wizened hold man. Today, he was wearing a blue footed jumper with a ‘Baby Mickey Mouse’ on it. The old man’s face scowled at him and shrieked, “The Infernium! The stars are right! Altair is in the house of Jupiter! Or was it Saturn? No, Jupiter, I’m certain! Harry, get me the Compendaem Astrae!” Pater Tempus was a veteran black magician, and a founding member o