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was a circle of tents just on the cusp of the war-ring landscapes, like a beachhead on an alien shore. They were brightly colored. Everything about the elves was beau-tiful, until the image tilted, and you saw it from the other side...
Something was happening. Several elves were on horseback, and more horses were being led between the tents.
It looked as though they were breaking camp.
The Queen sat on a makeshift throne in her tent. She sat with her elbow resting on one arm of the throne and her fin-gers curling pensively around her mouth.
There were other Currently the object of her attention was Granny Weatherwax.
“What is happening, old woman?” she said.
“It ain’t easy, is it?” said Granny. “Thought it would be easy, didn’t you?”
“You’ve done some magic, haven’t you? Something is fighting us.”elves seated in a semicircle, except that“seated” was a barely satisfactory word. They lounged; elvescould make themselves at home on a wire. And here therewas more lace and velvet and fewer feathers, although it was272LOR06 /)//0 LftD/£6hard to know if it meant that these were aristocrats—elves seemed to wear whatever they felt like wearing, confident of looking absolutely stunning.Every one of them watched the Queen, and was a mirror of her moods. When she smiled, they smiled. When she said something she thought was amusing, they laughed.

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minute, everything you touch turns to gold. He was plagued with it.”
Carter looked puzzled.
“How did he manage when he had to—“
“Let that be a lesson to you, young Carter,” said Baker. “You stay here where folks are sensible, not go gadding off abroad where you might suddenly be holding a fortune in your hands and not have anything to spend it on.”
“We’ve slept “Oh, well,” he said, managing to stand up at the third attempt, “probably no harm done. Let’s get on home and see what century it is.”
“What century is it, anyway?” said Thatcher.
“Century of the Fruitbat, isn’t it?” said Baker.
“Might not be anymore,” said Carter hopefully. It turned out that it was, indeed, the Century of the Fruitbat. Lancre didn’t have much use for units of time any smaller than an hour out here all night,” said Jason uncertainly “That’s dangerous, that is.”“You’re right there, Mr. Ogg,” said Carter, “I think some-thing went to the toilet in my ear.”“I mean strange things can enter your head.”“That’s what I mean, too.”166LORQ6 ft/YQ LfibfEQJason blinked. He was certain he’d dreamed. He could remember dreaming. But he couldn’t remember what the dream had been about. But there was still the feeling in his head of voices talking to him, but too far away to be heard.

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Other people would probably say: I wasn’t myself. But Granny Weatherwax didn’t have anyone else to be.
The two witches hurried on through the gale.
From the shelter of a thorn thicket, the unicorn watched them go.
Diamanda Tockley did indeed wear a floppy black velvet hat. It had a veil, too.
Perdita Nitt, who had once been merely Agnes Nitt before she got witchcraft, wore a black hat with a veil too, because Diamanda did. Both of them were seventeen. And she wished she was naturally skinny, like Diamanda, but if you can’t be about this Inner Self business. She was coming to suspect that she didn’t have one.
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And she wished she could do her eyes like Diamanda did.
And she wished she could wear heels like Diamanda did.skinny you can at least look unhealthy. So she wore so much thick white make-up in order to conceal her naturally rosy complexion that if she turned around suddenly her face would probably end up on the back of her head.They’d done the Raising of the Cone of Power, and some candle magic, and some scrying. Now Diamanda was show-ing them how to do the cards.She said they contained the distilled wisdom of the Ancients. Perdita had found herself treacherously wonder-ing who these Ancients were—they clearly weren’t the same as old people, who were stupid, Diamanda said, but she wasn’t quite clear why they were wiser than, say, modem people.Also, she didn’t understand what the FemininePrinciple was. And she wasn’t too clear

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my help, I believe you may,” said the woman in
the circle. “Your young man is looking for you, I think,” she
added mildly
Another of those one-shoulder shrugs, indicating that the young man can go on looking all day.
“I will, will I?”
“You could be a great witch. You could be anything.
Anything you want. Come into the circle. Let me show you.”
The girl takes a few steps forward, and then hesitates. There is something about the woman’s tone. The smile is pleasant But that was a long time ago, in the past. And besides, the bitch is ...
... older.
A land of ice ...
Not winter, because that presumes an autumn and per-haps one day a spring. This is a land of iceand friendly, but there is something in the voice—too desperate, too urgent, too hungry.“But I’m learning a lot—““Step through the stones now!”The girl hesitates again.“How do I know—“Terry Pratchett“Circle time is nearly over! Think of what you can leam!Now!”“But—““Step through!”

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had a distinct feeling that he knew what was going to come next.
"Beer cold enough?" he said.
"Extremely frosty," said St. Ungulant, beaming.
"And the roast "Full of giant purple singing slugs? Talking pillars of flame? Exploding giraffes? That sort of thing?" said Brutha carefully.
"Good heavens, yes," said the saint. "I don't know why. I think they're attracted by the mushrooms."
Brutha nodded.
"You're catching on, kid," said Om.
"And I expect sometimes you drink . . . water?" said Brutha.pig?"St. Ungulant's smile was manic."All brown and crunchy round the edges, yes," he said."But I expect, er . . . you eat the occasional lizard or snake, too?""Funny you should say that. Yes. Every once in a while. Just for a bit of variety.""And mushrooms, too?" said Om."Any mushrooms in these parts?" said Brutha innocently.St. Ungulant nodded happily."After the annual rains, yes. Red ones with yellow spots. The desert becomes really interesting after the mushroom season."

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prisoners' escort.
Brutha could see that Vorbis was boiling with fury. A small vein on the side of the exquisitor's bald temple was throbbing.
As if feeling Brutha's eyes on him, Vorbis turned his head.
"You seem ill at ease this morning, Brutha," he said.
"Sorry, lord."
"You seem to be looking into every corner. What are you expecting to find?"
"Uh. Just interested, lord. Everything's new."
"All the so-truth, Brutha. Heresy is often fascinating. Therein lies its danger."
"Yes, lord."
"Hah! And not only do they carve forbidden statues, but they can't even do it properly."
Brutha was no expert, but even he had to agree that this was true. Now the novelty of them had worn off, the statues that decorated every niche in the palace did have a certain badly made look. Brutha was prettcalled wisdom of Ephebe is not worth one line from the least paragraph in the Septateuch," said Vorbis."May we not study the works of the infidel in order to be more alert to the ways of heresy?" said Brutha, surprised at himself."Ah. A persuasive argument, Brutha, and one that the inquisitors have heard many times, if a little indistinctly in many cases."Vorbis glowered at the back of the head of Aristocrates, who was leading the party. "It is but a small step from listening to heresy to questioning established y sure he'd just passed one with two left arms. Another one had one ear larger than the other

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He's not," said Nhumrod.
Vorbis nodded approvingly. Undue intelligence in a novice was a mixed blessing. Sometimes it could be channeled for the greater glory of Om, but often it caused . . . well, it did not cause trouble, because Vorbis knew exactly what to do with misapplied intelligence, but it did cause unnecessary work.
"And yet you tell me his tutors speak so highly of him," he said.
Nhumrod shrugged.
"He is very obedient," he said. "And . . . well, there's his memory."
"What about his most imperfect world," he muttered.
"A devoutly read young man," said Vorbis.
"Er," said Nhumrod, "no. He can't read. Or write."
"Ah. A lazy boy."
The deacon was not a man who dwelt in grey areas. Nhumrod's mouth opened and shut silently as he sought for the proper words.memory?""There's so much of it," said Nhumrod."He has got a good memory?""Good is the wrong word. It's superb. He's word-perfect on the entire Sept-""Hmm?" said Vorbis.Nhumrod caught the deacon's eye."As perfect, that is, as anything may be in this
"No," he said. "He tries. We're sure he tries. He just does not seem to be able to make