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lot of this sort of thing, do you?’ he said to the trolls.
‘Yeah,’ said Galena. ‘All the time. Like, in A King’s Ransom, I play a troll who rushed out an’ hit people. An’ in The Dark Forest, I play a troll who rushed out an’ hit people. An’, an’, in Mystery Mountain I play a troll who rushed out, an’ jumped up an’ down on people. It doesn’t pay to get type-cast.’
‘And do you Victor a worried look, insofar as Victor was any judge of the range of expressions available to a face that looked as though it had been kicked out of granite with a pair of steel-toed boots. ‘What you fink?’ he said.
‘Er. Very nice.’ do the same thing?’ said Victor, to the other troll. ‘Oh, Morraine’s a character actor, ain’t you?’ said Galena. ‘Best in the business.’ ‘What does he play?’ ‘Rocks.’ Victor stared. ‘On account of his craggy features,’ Galena went on. ‘Not just rocks. You should see him do an ancient monolith. You’d be amazed. Go on, Morry, show ‘im yer inscription.’ ‘Nah,’ said Morraine, grinning sheepishly. ‘I’m thinking of changing my name for movin’ pictures,’ Galena went on. ‘Somethin’ with a bit o’ class. I thought "Flint".’ He gave

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Bursar knocked respectfully at the Archchancellor’s door and then opened it.
A crossbow bolt nailed his hat to the woodwork.
The be as calm as that without tremendous effort. ‘You can barely see the hole. Why, er, are you shooting at the door, Master?’
‘Use your common sense, man! It’s dark outside and the damn walls are made of stone. You don’t expect me to shoot at the damn walls?’
‘Ah,’ said the Bursar. ‘The door is, er, five hundred years old, you know,’ he added, with finely-tuned reproach.
‘Looks it,’ said the Archchancellor, bluntly. ‘Damn great black thing. What Archchancellor lowered the bow and glared at him. ‘Bloody dangerous thing to do, wasn’t it?’ he said. ‘You could have caused a nasty accident.’ The Bursar hadn’t got where he was today, or rather where he had been ten seconds ago, which was where a calm and self-assured personality was, rather than where he was now, which was on the verge of a mild heart attack, without a tremendous ability to recover from unexpected upsets. He unpinned his hat from the target chalked on the ancient woodwork. ‘No harm done,’ he said. No voice could

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the history of the kingdom, man!'
'Yes. My memory.'
The king relaxed a little. Sheer horrified fascination was unravelling the knot of fury.
'How old are you?' he said.
'I think... seven thousand years. But sometimes it seems much longer.'
'Really seven thousand years?'
'Yes,' said Dios.
'How could any-re-ptah, pushing forward.
'You will destroy the kingdom,' said Dios. 'I cannot allow it.'
'You cannot allow it?'
'Yes. What will we be without the pyramids?' said Dios.
'Speaking for the dead,' said Far-re-ptah, 'we will be free.'
'But the kingdom will be just another small country,' said Dios, and to their horror the ancestors saw tears in his eyes. man stand it?' said the king. Dios shrugged. 'Seven thousand years is just one day at a time,' he said. Slowly, with the occasional wince, he got down on one knee and held up his staff in shaking hands. 'O kings,' he said, 'I have always existed only to serve.' There was a long, extremely embarrassed pause. 'We will destroy the pyramids,' said Far

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carefully examined before being sent out into the world.
'I'm basically good at making the sun rise,' he said. 'I don't know how, though. And rivers. You want any rivers flooding, I'm your man. God, I mean.'
He lapsed idly applying You Vicious Brute's Theory of Transient Integrals to a succession of promising cissoid numbers. Ptraci kicked him irritably.
'Do you know where there is water, then?' said Teppic. . . . e/27. Eleven miles . . .
Ptraci glared at him from kohl-ringed eyes. 'You mean you don't know? You were going to take me into the desert and you don't know where the water is?'
'Well, I rather expected I was going to be able to take some with me!'into silence as a thought struck him. 'I wonder what's happening in there without me?' he said. Ptraci stood up and set off down to the gorge. 'Where are you going?' She turned. 'Well, Mr King or God or assassin, or whatever, can you make water?' 'What, here?' 'I mean to drink. There may be a river hidden in that crack or there may not, but we can't get at it, can we? So we have to go somewhere where we can. It's so simple I should think even kings could understand it.' He hurried after her, down the scree to where You Bastard was lying with his head and neck flat on the ground, flicking his ears in the heat and

Jack Vettriano The Last Great Romantic

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on summer nights they were alive with students tackling the roofs, towers, eaves and colls of the city. Edificing was a keen inter-house sport in its own right; it was one of the few things Teppic was sure he was good at - he'd been captain of the team that beat Scorpion House in the Wallgame finals. And this was one of the easier courses.
He dropped lightly over the edge of the roof, landed on a ridge, ran easily across the sleeping building, jumped a His aunt had wept, rather theatrically, Teppic had thought, since the old lady was as tough as a hippo's instep. His father had looked stern and dignified, whenever he could remember to, and tried to keep his mind free of beguiling images of cliffs and fish. The servants had been lined up along the hall from the foot of the main stairway, narrow gap on to the tiled roof of the Young Men's Reformed-Cultists-of-the-Ichor-God-Bel-Shamharoth Association gym, jogged gently over the grey slope, swarmed up a twelve foot wall without slowing down, and vaulted on to the wide flat roof of the Temple of Blind Io. A full, orange moon hung on the horizon. There was a real breeze up here, not much, but as refreshing as a cold shower after the stifling heat of the streets. He speeded up, enjoying the coolness on his face, and leapt accurately off the end of the roof on to the narrow plank bridge that led across Tinlid Alley. And which someone, in defiance of all probability, had removed. At times like this one's past life flashes before one's eyes. . .