There was a click. There was a noise like a partridge. There was a thud.
There was silence.

“Vimes's lack of interest in other people's children was limitless.”

“But we were dragons. We were supposed to be cruel, cunning, heartless and terri…”

“It looked like the sort of book described in library catalogues as 'slightly fo…”

“They obeyed, as wise men do when a woman puts her foot down . . .”