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You’re telling me?’ said Ginger. ‘Get on with it!’
The wizards moved forward.
Ginger heard footsteps behind her. It was the Dibblers.
‘Why’s it frightened of the flame?’ said Soll, and the Thing backed away from the advancing wizards. ‘It’s just illusion. It must be able to feel there’s no heat.’
Ginger shook. It began to climb the tower.

Victor slid off his horse and stopped concentrating. It vanished.
Despite his panic, he found room for a tiny gloat. If only wizards had gone to the clicks, they’d have known exactly how to do it.
It was the critical fusion frequency. Even reality had one. If you could only her head. She looked like someone surfing on a curling wave of hysteria, perhaps because it is not every day you see giant images of yourself trampling down a city.‘It’s used Holy Wood magic,’ she said. ‘So it can’t disobey Holy Wood rules. It can’t feel, it can’t hear. It can only see. What it sees is what is real. And what film fears is fire.’Now the giant Ginger was pressed against the tower.‘Well, it’s trapped,’ said Dibbler. ‘They’ve got it now.’The Thing blinked at the advancing flames.It turned. It reached up with its free hand

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the sea, right? All you have to do is swim down there and hope your lungs hold out.’
Laddie barked.
‘Not you,’ said Gaspode. ‘I wasn’t talking to you. Never volunteer for anything.’
Victor continued his burrowing among the rocks.
‘I don’t ‘Gaspode?’ said Victor apprehensively.
‘It’s OK. I’m through. An’ I can see the door.’
‘Great!’
Victor felt the air move and there was a scratching noise. He reached out carefully and his hand met a ferociously hairy body.
‘Laddie’s trying to follow you!’
‘He’s too big. He’ll get stuck!’know,’ he said, after a while, ‘but it seems to me I can see a bit of light here. What do you think?’He heard Gaspode scramble over the stones.‘Could be, could be,’ said the dog grudgingly. ‘Looks like a couple of blocks have wedged up and left a space.’‘Big enough for someone small to crawl through?’ said Victor encouragingly.‘I knew you were going to say that,’ said Gaspode.Victor heard the scrabble of paws on loose rock. Eventually a muffled voice said, ‘It opens up a bit . . . tight squeeze here . . . blimey . . . ‘There was silence.

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must have been important. Looks a bit temple-ish,’ said Victor. ‘Why’d she want to open it?’
‘Bits of cliff sliding down an’ mysterious doors appearin’,’ said Gaspode, shaking his head. ‘That’s a lot of boding. Let’s go somewhere far away and really think about it, eh?’
Ginger gave a groan. Victor crouched down.
‘What’d she say?’
‘Dunnosaid. ‘We did our first click here. It’s where I first met her.’
‘Very romantic,’ said Gaspode distantly, hurrying away with Laddie bounding happily around him. ‘If something ‘orrible comes out of that door, you can fink of it as Our Monster.’
‘Hey! Wait!’
‘Hurry up, then.’ ,’ said Gaspode. ‘It sounded like "I want to be a lawn", I thought?’ ‘Daft. Touch of the sun there, I reckon,’ said Gaspode knowledgeably. ‘Maybe you’re right. Her head certainly feels very hot.’ He picked her up, staggering a little under the weight. ‘Come on,’ he managed. ‘Let’s get down into the town. It’ll be getting dark soon.’ He looked around at the stunted trees. The door lay in a sort of hollow, which presumably caught enough dew to make the growth there slightly less desiccated than elsewhere. ‘You know, this place looks familiar,’ he
‘What would she want to be a lawn for, do you think?’

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through the puddles, grabbed a drainpipe to swing around the corner and, clicking its heels together merrily, disappeared from view.
Sgt Colon handed the soggy dog-end back to his companion.
‘Was that old Throat Dibbler?’ he said after a while.
‘Yeah,’ said Nobby.
‘He looked wandered over to the big pot. It was actually wobbling from side to side, as if the building was shaking.
The Archchancellor watched, fascinated.
. . . whumm . . . whummwhummwhummWHUMM.
It wobbled to a standstill, and went silent.
‘Odd,’ said the Archchancellor. ‘Damned odd.’ happy, didn’t he?’ ‘Must be off ‘is nut, if you ask me,’ said Nobby. ‘Singing in the rain like that.’ Whumm . . . whumm . . . The Archchancellor, who had been updating his dragon stud book and enjoying a late night drink in front of the fire, looked up. . . . whumm . . . whumm . . . whumm . . . ‘Bigods!’ he muttered, and
Plib.

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you wanted to understand Holy Wood, Victor said years afterwards, you had to understand its buildings.
You’d see a box on the sand. It’d have a roughly peaked roof, but that wasn’t important, because it never rained in Holy Wood. There’d be cracks in the walls, stuffed with old rags. The windows would be holes-glass was too fragile to come to Holy Wood, but why? He couldn’t remember. All he could remember was that, at the time, it was the obvious thing to do. There had been hundreds of good reasons.
If only he could remember one of them.
Not that his mind had any room to review memories. It was too busy being aware that he was very hungry and acutely thirsty. His pockets had yielded a total of seven pence. That wouldn’t buy a bowl of soup, let alone a good meal. to cart all the way from Ankh-Morpork. And, from behind, the front was just like a huge wooden billboard, held up by a network of struts. From the front, it was a fretted, carved, painted, ornate, baroque architectural extravaganza. In Ankh-Morpork, sensible men built their houses plain, so as not to attract attention, and kept the decoration for inside. But Holy Wood wore its houses inside out. Victor walked up what passed for the main street in a daze. He had woken up in the early hours out in the dunes. Why? He’d decided

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His other son bit his stylus miserably. His hand was hurting. He'd tried to touch his brother, and the crackling shock had taken the skin off his fingers.
'I might,' he ventured.
'Can you cure it?'
'I don't think so.'
'What is it, then?'
'Well, dad. When we were up on the pyramid . . . well, when it couldn't flare . . . you see, I'm sure it twisted around . . . time, you see, is just another dimension . . . um.'
in the frescoes,' he said. 'Where's his depth, or whatever you call it?'
'I think that's in Time,' said IIb, helplessly. 'Ours, not his.'
Ptaclusp walked around his son, noting how the flatness followed him. He scratched his chin.
'So he can walk in Time, can he?' he said slowly.Ptaclusp rolled his eyes. 'None of that architect's talk, boy,' he said. 'What's wrong with him?' 'I think he's dimensionally maladjusted, dad. Time and space has got a bit mixed up for him. That's why he's moving sideways all the time.' Ptaclusp IIb gave his father a brave little smile. 'He always used to move sideways,' said Ptaclusp. His son sighed. 'Yes, dad,' he said. 'But that was just normal. All accountants move like that. Now he's moving sideways because that's like, well, it's like Time to him.' Ptaclusp frowned. Drifting gently sideways wasn't IIa's only problem. He was also flat. Not flat like a card, with a front, back and edge - but flat from any direction. 'Puts me exactly in mind of them people

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forge the ultimate political tool short of warfare. How fortunate you are now, in training for a guild which demands so much in terms of manners, deportment, bearing and esoteric skills, and yet offers a power once the preserve .'
Chidder never went into details about what kind of commerce it was. It had something to do with moving items around and supplying needs, but exactly what items and which needs was never made clear.
After hitting Cheesewright he explained carefully that Terminate with Extreme Prejudice did not simply require that the victim was inhumed, preferably in an extremely thorough way, but that his associates and employees were also intimately only of the gods. Truly, the world is the mollusc of your choice . . . Chidder translated much of this behind the stables during the dinner break. 'I know what Terminate with Extreme Prejudice means,' said Cheesewright loftily. 'It means to inhume with an axe. 'It bloody well doesn't,' said Chidder. 'How do you know, then?' 'My family have been in commerce for years,' said Chidder. 'Huh,' said Cheesewright. 'Commerce

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'I think,' she said helplessly, 'that it might be a good idea if you have a quiet word with Nanny Ogg one of these days. Fairly soon.'
There was a cackle of laughter from the window behind them, a chink of glasses, and a thin voice raised in song: —with a giraffe, If you stand on a stool. But the hedgehog—' Granny stopped listening. 'Only not just now,' she added.said Magrat. 'In those carts. The things they had! Paper trees, and all kinds of costumes, and—' she waved her hands – 'there was this great big picture of forn parts, with all temples and things all rolled up. It was beautiful.'
Granny grunted.pins. But a good soul, underneath it all. Kind to small furry animals. The sort of person who worried about baby birds falling out of nests.
'Look, if it makes you any happier,' she muttered, surprised at herself. She waved her hands vaguely over the image of the departing carts. 'What's it to be – wealth, beauty?'
'Well, money isn't everything, and

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where the back of your head tells you the trees are turning around to watch you as you go past and the sky seems to be very high up and a long way off. Despite the heat of the day a dank, impenetrable gloom hovered among the 'Just a humble wood gatherer,' she snapped. She held up a twig for proof. Several hours waiting with nothing but trees to talk to hadn't improved her temper.
Wimsloe nudged Tomjon, who nodded and fixed his face in an ingratiating smile.
'Would you care to share our lunch, old . . . good wo . . . miss?' he said. 'It's only salt pork, I'm afraid.'
'Meat is extremely bad for the digestive system,' said Magrat. 'If you could see inside your tree trunks, which crowded up to the track as if intending to obliterate it completely.They were soon lost again, and decided that being lost somewhere where you didn't know where you were was even worse than being lost in the open.'She could have given more explicit instructions,' said Hwel.'Like ask at the next crone,' said Tomjon. 'Look over there.'He stood up in the seat.'Ho there, old . . . good . . .' he hazarded.Magrat pushed back her shawl.

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loyally. 'But my cottage isn't the place for them. I mean, there's some woman in a chariot yelling her head off in the washhouse. I ask you. And there's a couple of little kiddies in the pantry, and men without heads all over the place, and someone screaming under the sink, and there's this little hairy man wandering around looking lost and everything. It's not right.'
'Just so 'Bloody hell,' she whispered. 'You ain't going to try that, are you?'
'I mean to have a go.'
'Bloody hell,' said Nanny again, very quietly, and added. 'You've been thinking long as he's not here,' said Granny. 'We don't want any men around.''He's a ghost, not a man,' said Magrat.'We don't have to go into details,' Granny said icily.'But you can't put the old king back on the throne,' said Magrat. 'Ghosts can't rule. You'd never get the crown to stay on. It'd drop through.''We're going to replace him with his son,' said Granny. 'Proper succession.''Oh, we've been through all that,' said Nanny, dismissively. 'In about fifteen years' time, perhaps, but—''Tonight,' said Granny.'A child on the throne? He wouldn't last five minutes.''Not a child,' said Granny quietly. 'A grown man. Remember Aliss Demurrage?'There was silence. Then Nanny Ogg sat back.

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freezing forests were silent and smelled of tin. The only things that fell from the sky were the occasional fresh showers of snow.
A man walked across the moors from Razorback to Lancre town without seeing a single marshlight, headless dog, strolling tree, ghostly coach or comet, and had to be taken in by a tavern and given a drink to unsteady his An ordinary person would have crept downstairs, possibly armed with a poker. Granny simply hugged her knees and let her mind wander.
It hadn't been in the house. She could feel the small, fast minds of mice, and the fuzzy minds of her goats as they lay in their cosy flatulence in the outhouse. A hunting owl was a sudden dagger of alertness as it glided over the rooftops.nerves.The stoicism of the Ramtoppers, developed over the years as a sovereign resistance to the thaumaturgical chaos, found itself unable to cope with the sudden change. It was like a noise which isn't heard until it stops.Granny Weatherwax heard it now as she lay snug under a pile of quilts in her freezing bedroom. Hogswatchnight is, traditionally, the one night of the Disc's long year when witches are expected to stay at home, and she'd had an early night in the company of a bag of apples and a stone hotwater bottle. But something had awoken her from her doze.

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had happened that Vitoller's strolling players had been passing through at the time, and the dwarf had ventured one small copper coin on a performance of The Dragon of the Plains. He had watched it without a muscle moving in his face, gone back to his lodgings, and in the morning had knocked on Vitoller's latty with the He licked his quill and looked bashfully around the camp. No-one was watching. He carefully lifted up the Wizard and revealed another stack of paper.
It was another potboiler. Every page was stained with sweat and the words themselves scrawled across the first draft of King Under the Mountain. It wasn't in fact very good, but Vitoller had been perceptive enough to see that inside the hairy bullet head was an imagination big enough to bestride the world and so, when the strolling players strolled off, one of them was running to keep up . . .Particles of raw inspiration sleet through the universe all the time. Every once in a while one of them hits a receptive mind, which then invents DNA or the flute sonata form or a way of making light bulbs wear out in half the time. But most of them miss. Most people go through their lives without being hit by even one.Some people are even more unfortunate. They get them all.Such a one was Hwel. Enough inspirations to equip a complete history of the performing arts poured continuously into a small heavy skull designed by evolution to do nothing more spectacular than be remarkably resistant to axe blows.

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LET'S GET OUT OF HERE.
'But it can't He wasn't breathing.
I WILL TAKE YOU WHEREVER YOU WANT, he said, AND THEN I MUST LEAVE YOU.
'But I thought you wanted to rescue the princess!'
Mort shook his head.
I HAVE NO CHOICE. THERE ARE NO CHOICES.be true about King Whosis dwelling among the stars,' she grumbled as they found their way out of the crowded room. 'There's nothing but empty space up there.'IT'S HARD TO EXPLAIN, said Mort. HE'LL DWELL AMONG THE STARS IN HIS OWN MIND.'With slaves?'IF THAT'S WHAT THEY THINK THEY ARE.That's not very fair.'THERE'S NO JUSTICE, said Mort. JUST us.They hurried back along the avenues of waiting ghouls and were nearly running when they burst out into the desert night air. Ysabell leaned against the rough stonework and panted for breath.Mort wasn't out of breath.

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Or something. An industry where a senior technician is called a Best Boy might call it anything.)
AND WHAT IS THAT? he added, winding a bit of black silk around the wicked hook in a little vice he'd clamped to his whistled a busy little tune through his teeth, not having anything else to whistle through. He looked up.
HMM?
They – didn't go as smoothly as I thought,' said Mort, standing nervously on the carpet in front of the desk.
You HAD TROUBLE? said Death, snipping off a few scraps of feather.
'Well, you see, the witch wouldn't desk.Mort hesitated. Mostly this was because of fear and embarrassment, but it was also because the sight of a hooded spectre peacefully tying dry flies was enough to make anyone pause.Besides, Ysabell was sitting on the other side of the room, ostensibly doing some needlework but also watching him through a cloud of sullen disapproval. He could feel her red-rimmed eyes boring into the back of his neck.Death inserted a few crow hackles and

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"It works, though, doesn't it?"
They were alone on the cold plain now. The Things were distant stick-figures.
"I wonder if this is what they mean by sourcery?" said Simon.
I don't know. It might be."mean, we thought - Treatle told us -"
"Oook," said the librarian, shooing some pages back between their covers.
"Where are young Simon and the girl? What have you done with them?" Granny demanded.
"They - we put them over here," said the wizard, backing away. "Um -"
"Show us," said Cutangle. "And stop stuttering, man, you'd think you'd never seen a woman before."
"I'd really like looking down at the pyramid.
"Well, that is supposed to be my idea of the world. I should be able to find a way. How do you do this thing with the hands?"
He moved his hands together. The staff slid between them, the light glowing through his fingers for a moment, and then vanished. He grinned. "Right. Now all we have to do is look for the University . . .

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That's wizards for you, he thought gloomily as he waded between the dripping arches, always probing the infinite but never noticing the definite, especially in the matter of household chores. We never had this trouble before that woman came.
He squelched up the steps, lit by a particularly impressive flash of lightning. He had a cold certainty that while of course spots where magic was leaking from the cellars, but there was no one to be seen.
Unless, of course, one of the statues had spoken. They had been too heavy to move, and Trestle remembered telling the students that a thorough wash would probably do them good.no one could possibly blame him for all this, everybody would. He seized the hem of his robe and wrung it out wretchedly, then he reached for his tobacco pouch. It was a nice green waterproof one. That meant that all the rain that had got into it couldn't get out again. It was indescribable. He found his little clip of papers. They were fused into one lump, like the legendary pound note found in the back pockets of trousers after they have been washed, spun, dried and ironed. "Bugger," he said, with feeling. "I say! Treatle!" Treatle looked around. He had been the last to leave the hall, where even now some of the benches were beginning to float. Whirlpools and patches of bubble marked the

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brow crinkled.
"Yes, it's mine," he said, determined to regain the initiative. "And what are you doing on it, I would like to know? Running away fromyesno? If you were a boy I'd say are you going to seek your fortune?"
"Can't girls seek their fortune?"
"I think they're supposed to seek a boy with a fortune," said the man, and gave a Zoo-carat grin. He extended a "Yes-ss," he said. "Er. I didn't know they weren't supposed to."
"Did you see a little girl on board?" Tap-tap went her boot.
"Um. No. I'm sorry." He brightened. "They were Zoons," he said; "If the child was with brown hand, heavy with rings. "Come and have some breakfast." "I'd actually like to use your privy," she said. His mouth dropped open. "This is a barge, yesno?" "Yes?" "That means there's only the river." He patted her hand. "Don't worry," he added. "It's quite used to it." Granny stood on the wharf, her boot tap-tap-tapping on the wood. The little man who was the nearest thing Ohulan had to a dockmaster was being treated to the full force of one of her stares, and was visibly wilting. Her expression wasn't perhaps as vicious as thumbscrews, but it did seem to suggest that thumbscrews were a real possibility. "They left before dawn, you say," she said.

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Rincewind ran a finger down the page.
'There, I think. Where the two-headed lizard is doing – whatever it's doing.'
Twoflower appeared at her other shoulder. The Spell flowed into another script.
'I can't even pronounce it,' said Bethan. 'Squiggle, squiggle, dot, dash.'
'That's Cupumuguk snow runes,' said Rincewind. 'I think it should be pronounced "zph".'
'It didn't work, though. How about "sph"?'
They looked at the word. It remained resolutely off-colour.
'Or "sff"?' said Bethan.
'It might be "tsfftowards the floor. And didn't reach it.

The air around the Octavo glowed. It rose slowly, flapping its pages like wings.
Then there was a plangent, sweet twanging noise and it seemed to explode in a complicated silent flower of light which rushed outwards, faded, and was gone.",' said Rincewind doubtfully. If anything the colour became a dirtier shade of brown.'How about "zsff"?' said Twoflower.'Don't be silly,' said Rincewind. 'With snow runes the —'Bethan elbowed him in the stomach and pointed.The brown shape in the air was now a brilliant red.The book trembled in her hands. Rincewind grabbed her around the waist, snatched Twoflower by the collar, and jumped backwards.Bethan lost her grip on the Octavo, which tumbled
But something was happening much further up in the sky . . .

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'These are worse.'
'Oh.'
'And what do you propose to do about it?' said a clear voice.
They turned. Bethan was glaring at them, arms folded.
'Pardon?' said Wert.
'You're wizards, aren't you?' she said. 'Well, get on with it.'
'What, tackle that?' said Rincewind.
'Know anyone else?'
Wert pushed forward. 'Madam, I don't think you quite understand —'
'The Dungeons Dimensions will empty into our Universe, right?' said Bethan.
'Well, yesTwoflower.
He wasn't there. Rincewind's eyes turned inevitably towards the base of the Tower of Art, and he was just in time to see the tourist's plump figure, sword inexpertly in hand, as it disappeared into a door.
Rincewind's feet made their own decision and, from the oint of view of his head, got it entirely wrong.
The other wizards watched him go.
'Well?' said Bethan. 'He's going.' . The wizards tried to avoid one another's eyes. —''We'll all be eaten by things with tentacles for faces, right?''Nothing so pleasant, but —''And you're just going to let it happen?''Listen,' said Rincewind. 'It's all over, do you see? You can't put the spells back in the book, you can't unsay what's been said, you can't —''You can try!'Rincewind sighed, and turned to
Eventually Wert said, 'We could try, I suppose. It doesn't seem to be spreading.'

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'There's something funny about this cave,' said Bethan.
'What?' said Cohen.
'Well, look at it. Have you ever seen rocks like those before?'
Cohen had to agree that the semi-circle of stones around the cave entrance were unusual; each one was higher than a man, and heavily worn, and surprisingly shiny. There was a matching semi-circle on the ceiling. The whole effect was that of a stone by a druid with a vague idea of geometry and no sense of gravity.
'Look at, isn't it?'
They looked at it.
'I can't quite put my finger on why,' said Twoflower, 'but I think it might be a rather good idea to get out of here.'
'Oh yesh,' said Cohen sarcastically, 'I shupposhe we'd jusht better ashk theesh people to untie ush and let us go, eh?' the walls, too.'Cohen squinted at the wall next to him. There were veins of red crystal in it. He couldn't be quite certain, but it was almost as if little points of light kept flashing on and off deep within the rock itself.It was also extremely drafty. A steady breeze blew out of the black depths of the cave.'I'm sure it was blowing the other way when we came in,' whispered Bethan. 'What do you think, Twoflower?''Well, I'm not a cave expert,' he said, 'but I was just thinking, that's a very interesting stalag-thingy hanging from the ceiling up there. Sort of bulbous

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with a Brother of Midnight.
He yelped and gave the handlebars a convulsive twist.
Several thingsand looked at me,' said the apprentice.
'It had eyes then, this box?'
'N—,' began the apprentice and stopped, puzzled. The old man frowned.
'Many have seen Topaxci, God of the Red Mushroom, and they earn the name happened at once. The broomstick shot orward and broke through the wall in a shower of crumbs: the Luggage surged forward and bit the Brother in the leg: and with a strange whistling sound an arrow appeared from nowhere, missed Rincewind by inches, and struck the Luggage's lid with a very solid thud. The Luggage vanished. In a little village deep in the forest an ancient shaman threw a few more twigs on his fire and stared through the smoke at his shamefaced apprentice.'A box with legs on?' he said.'Yes, master. It just appeared out of the sky

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heart of the incredibly dry desert known as the Great Nef. On a colder and wetter sea he had seen floating mountains of ice. He had ridden on an imaginary dragon. He had very nearly said the most powerful spell on the disc. He us into the reef, but this boat doesn't seem to want to sink and we're bound to strike land sooner or later," said Twoflower comfortingly. "This current must go somewhere."
"Look at the horizon," Said Rincewind, in a monotone.
Twoflower squinted.
"It looks all right," he said after a while.
"Admittedly, there seems to be less than there usually is, but-"had--there was definitely less horizon than there ought to be."Hmm" Said Rincewind."I said nothing's worse than slavery," said Twoflower. His mouth opened as the wizard flung his bucket far out to sea and sat down heavily on the waterlogged deck, his face a grey mask."Look, I'm sorry I steered