While there, Esk witnesses the progress of an apprentice wizard named Simon, whom she had met earlier, on her way to Ankh-Morpork.

"You think the dwarves are the ones who were following us," he said, gazing at the apprentice wizard.

Nero helped them set up the equipment, and, like some apprentice wizard, he watched her heating and stirring the ingredients.

You're a grown woman and an apprentice wizard, and there are seven of your friends a kilometer up the road.

She might be useful to have around; even an apprentice wizard was not something to be taken lightly, he was sure.

I'm only an apprentice wizard, you see ... but I'm behind all the others.

The apprentice wizard sighed.

Later, as an apprentice wizard, he had also been frightened by the necessity of levitating himself up and down the central shaft.

This character is an apprentice wizard and runs afoul of the dwarf, who cruelly breaks his wand.

I realized it myself, that I could never be anything other than a poor apprentice wizard.