Book 07 - Pyramids by Terry Pratchett

Author:Terry Pratchett [Pratchett, Terry]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fantasy, Fiction, Discworld
ISBN: 9780061020650
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 1989-01-02T08:00:00+00:00

All the pyramids were blazing now, filling the sky with their sooty light as the brothers Ptaclusp struggled to the main working platform.

IIa collapsed on the planking, wheezing like an elderly bellows. A few feet away the sloping side was hot to the touch, and there was no doubt in his mind now that the pyramid was creaking, like a sailing ship in a gale. He had never paid much attention to the actual mechanics as opposed to the cost of pyramid construction, but he was pretty certain that the noise was as wrong as II and II making V.

His brother reached out to touch the stone, but drew his hand back as small sparks flashed around his fingers.

“You can feel the warmth,” he said. “It’s astonishing!”

“Why?”

“Heating up a mass like this. I mean, the sheer tonnage…”

“I don’t like it, Two-bee,” IIa quavered. “Let’s just leave the stone here, shall we? I’m sure it’ll be all right, and in the morning we can send a gang up here, they’ll know exactly what—”

His words were drowned out as another flare crackled across the sky and hit the column of dancing air fifty feet above them. He grabbed part of the scaffolding.

“Sod take this,” he said. “I’m off.”

“Hang on a minute,” said IIb. “I mean, what is creaking? Stone can’t creak.”

“The whole bloody scaffolding is moving, don’t be daft!” He stared goggle-eyed at his brother. “Tell me it’s the scaffolding,” he pleaded.

“No, I’m certain this time. It’s coming from inside.”

They stared at one another, and then at the rickety ladder leading up to the tip, or to where the tip should be.

“Come on!” said IIb. “It can’t flare off, it’s trying to find ways of discharging—”

There was a sound as loud as the groaning of continents.

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