![]() ![]() The Library was the greatest assemblage of magical texts anywhere in the multiverse. The only light was a faint octarine flicker from the tiny windows of the new High Energy Magic building, where keen-edged minds were probing the very fabric of the universe, whether it liked it or not.Īnd there was light, of course, in the Library. ĭamp darkness shrouded the venerable buildings of Unseen University, premier college of wizardry. Because, because she was yours, all you had, even in her gutters. Only thing you were sure of, you couldn't let her go. And then you hated her and, and just when you thought you'd got her, it, out of your, your, whatever, then she opened her great booming rotten heart to you, caught you off bal, bal, bal, thing. Strung you along, let you fall in thingy, love, with her, then kicked you inna, inna, thingy. And drunken Captain Vimes of the Night Watch staggered slowly down the street, folded gently into the gutter outside the Watch House and lay there while, above him, strange letters made of light sizzled in the damp and changed colour. Under night's damp cloak assassins assassinated, thieves thieved, hussies hustled. ![]() Rats of various species went about their nocturnal occasions. A thin drizzle dripped from the grey sky and punctuated the river mist that coiled among the streets. In another space entirely, it was early morning in Ankh-Morpork, oldest and greatest and grubbiest of cities. They could put you in mind of a can of sardines, if you thought sardines were huge and scaly and proud and arrogant.Īnd presumably, somewhere, there's the key. Not a cubic inch there but is filled by a claw, a talon, a scale, the tip of a tail, so the effect is like one of those trick drawings and your eyeballs eventually realise that the space between each dragon is, in fact, another dragon: Possibly the word we're looking for here is.Īnd although the space they occupy isn't like normal space, nevertheless they are packed in tightly. Not waiting, because waiting implies expectation. ![]()
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