He sighed and opened the black box and took out his rings and slipped them on. Another box held a set of knives and Klatchian steel, their blades darkened with lamp black. Various cunning and intricat...
Contrary to popular belief and hope, people don't usually come running when they hear a scream. That's not how humans work. Humans look at other humans and say, 'Did you hear a scream?' because the fi...
It was a Guild of Assassins, after all. Black was what you wore. The night was black and so were you. And black had such style, and an Assassin without style, everyone agreed, was just a highly paid a...
The man gave Dodger a cursory glance that had quite a lot of curse in it.
You know, you're rather amusingly wrong.
Historical Re-creation, he thought glumly, as they picked their way across, under, over or through the boulders and insect-buzzing heaps of splintered timber, with streamlets running everywhere. Only...
Whatever happens, they say afterwards, it must have been fate. People are always a little confused about this, as they are in the case of miracles. When someone is saved from certain death by a strang...
Behind her, Preston grunted and said, I know it's not the right thing to say to a lady, miss, but you are sweating like a pig!Tiffany, trying to get her shattered thoughts together, muttered, My mothe...
And he won her freedom by playing beautiful music,' Roland added. 'I think he played a lute. Or maybe it was a lyre.''Ach, weel, that'll suit us fine,' said Daft Wullie. 'We're experts at lootin' an'...
And in this doleful mood he ventured to wonder if they ever thought back to when things were just old-fangled or not fangled at all as against the modern day when fangled had reached its apogee. Fangl...
That's a nice song, said young Sam, and Vimes remembered that he was hearing it for the first time. It's an old soldiers' song, he said. Really, sarge? But it's about angels. , thought Vimes, As I rec...
The Assassin moved quietly from roof to roof until he was well away from the excitement around the Watch House. His movements could be called cat-like, except that he did not stop to spray urine up ag...
They stole from rich merchants and temples and kings. They didn't steal from poor people; this was not because there was anything virtuous about poor people, it was simply because poor people had no m...
Then it came to her. She did deserve to die. And she was alone. She never would be. Not while her land was beneath her boots. land. The land of the Achings.She was Tiffany Aching. Not Granny Weathe...
It is possibly worth mentioning at this point that Mr. Young thought that paparazzi was a kind of Italian linoleum.
Moist groaned. It was the crack of seven and he was allergic to the concept of two seven o'clocks in one day.
You are very clever, said the old man shyly. I would like to eat your brains, one day.For some reason the books of etiquette that Daphne's grandmother had forced on her didn't quite deal with this. Of...
It was the kind of storm that suggests the whole sky has swallowed a diuretic.
Have - have you got an appointment?' he said.'I don't know,' said Carrot. 'Have we got an appointment?''I've got an iron ball with spikes on,' Nobby volunteered.'That's a morningstar, Nobby.''Is it?''...
And what do you really do? asked Tiffany. The thin witch hesitatied for a moment, and then: We look to ... the edges, said Mistress Weatherwax. There's a lot of edges, more than people know. Between l...
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