Vimes' meeting with the Patrician ended as all such meetings did, with the guest going away in possession of an unfocused yet nagging suspicion that he'd only just escaped with his life.
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The river slunk sullenly in the bottom of its bed, like a student around 11 a.m.
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Royalty pollutes people's minds, boy. Honest men start bowing and bobbing just because someone's granddad was a bigger murdering bastard than theirs was.
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Lance-constable Angua of the night watch
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Here and there huge patches of fungi, luminous with decay, cast a faint glow over the ancient stonework.*
*It didn't need to. Cuddy, belonging to a race that worked underground for preference, and Detritus, a member of a race notoriously nocturnal, had excellent vision in the dark. But mysterious caves and tunnels always have luminous fungi, strangely bright crystals or at a pinch merely an eldritch glow in the air, just in case a human hero comes in and needs to see in the dark. Strange but true.
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He’d faced trolls and dwarfs and dragons, but now he was having to meet an entirely new species. The rich.
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From the 1993 Discworld series novel Men at Arms by Terry Pratchett.
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My friend is reading "Men at arms" so I doodled her favourite scene
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the king of carrot flowers 👑🥕🌼
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Angua felt that she was beginning to understand the way Carrot asked questions. He asked them by not asking them. He simply told people what he thought or suspected, and they found themselves filling in the details in an attempt to keep up. And he never, actually, told lies.
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Vimes’ meeting with the Patrician ended as all such meetings did, with the guest going away in possession of an unfocused yet nagging suspicion that he’d only just escaped with his life.
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God I will never be over Cuddy and Detritus's friendship. I will never be over the clockwork thinking helmet. I will never be over Cuddy getting over centuries of prejudice long enough to learn how Detritus thinks and why he struggles so much and then go and create a solution for him.
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OK. OK. Let's believe he's a good man. But his second-in-command - is he a good man too? You'd better hope so. Because he's the supreme ruler, too, in the name of the king. And the rest of the court... they've got to be good men. Because if just one of them's a bad man the result is bribery and patronage.
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