Pratchett, Terry - Discworld 13 - Small Gods by Pratchett Terry

Author:Pratchett, Terry
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2007-10-04T20:27:14+00:00

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"Where is he now?" he said.

"Well, someone said they saw a pair of sandals with smoke coming out just outside his house a year or two back,"

said Didactylos. "He might have, you know, pushed his luck."

"I think," said Brutha, "that I'd better be going. I'm sorry to have intruded on your time."

"Bring it back when you've finished with it," said Didactylos.

"Is that how people read in Omnia?" said Urn.

"What?"

"Upside down."

Brutha picked up the tortoise, glared at Urn, and strode as haughtily as possible out of the Library.

"Hmm," said Didactylos. He drummed his fingers on the tables.

"It was him I saw in the tavern last night," said Urn. "I'm sure, master."

"But the Omnians are staying here in the palace."

"That's right, master."

"But the tavern is outside."

"Yes."

"Then he must have flown over the wall, do you think?"

"I'm sure it was him, master."

"Then . . . maybe he came later. Maybe he hadn't gone in when you saw him."

"It can only be that, master. The keepers of the labyrinth are unbribable."

Didactylos clipped Urn across the back of the head with his lantern.

"Stupid boy! I've told you about that sort of statement."

"I mean, they are not easily bribable, master. Not for all the gold in Omnia, for example."

"That's more like it."

"Do you think that tortoise was a god, master?"

"He's going to be in big trouble in Omnia if he is. They've got a bastard of a god there. Did you ever read old Abraxas?"

"No, master."

"Very big on gods. Big gods man. Always smelled of burnt hair. Naturally resistant."

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