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"Don't even say it," warned Colon

"The best bit is when you stick the knife in and crack the fat and all the browny gold stuff bubbles up," said Carrot dreamily "A moment like that is worth a ki-"

"Shutup! Shutup!" shouted Colon "You're just- what the hell was that?"

They felt the sudden downdraught, saw the ainst the house walls A blast of colder air swept along the street, and was gone

"It was like soeant He froze "Here, you don't think-?"

"We saw it killed, didn't we?" said Nobby urgently

"We saw it vanish, " said Carrot

They looked at one another, alone and da up there The iination peopled the dank air with terrible apparitions And orse was the knowledge that Nature ht have done an even better job

"Nah," said Colon "It was probably just so"

"Isn't there anything we should do?" said Carrot

"Yes," said Nobby "We should go away quickly Reon," said Carrot "We should warn people and-"

"No," said Sergeant Colon vehemently, "because, Ae, they wouldn't believe us and, Bee, we've got a king now 'S his job, dragons"

"S'right," said Nobby "He'd probably be really angry Dragons are probably, you know, royal animals Like deer Aabout killing one, when there's a king around"[17]

"Makes you glad you're common," said Colon

"Commoner," corrected Nobby

"That's not a very civic attitude-" Carrot began He was interrupted by Errol

The little dragon cah, his eyes fixed on the clouds above hi them any attention at all

"What's up with him?" said Nobby

A clatter behind them introduced the Ra through the fog

"Definitely," said Sergeant Colon

"Did you see a dragon go past? Apart fro at the other two "Sort of, sir Possibly It ht of been"

"Then don't stand there like a lot of boobies," said Lady Ramkin "Get in! Plenty of room inside!"

There was When it was built, the coach had probably been the s Ti out of the seats to allow its frequent use to transport dragons to shows had taken their toll, but it still reeked of privilege, style and, of course, dragons

"What do you think you're doing?" said Colon, as it rattled off through the fog

"Wavin'," said Nobby, gesturing graciously to the billows around the, really," oin' around in coaches like this when there's people with no roof to their heads"

"It's Lady Raht"

"Well, yes, but what about her ancestors, eh? You don't get big houses and carriages without grindin' the faces of the poor a bit"

"You're just annoyed because yourcrowns on her undies," said Nobby

"That's got nothing to do with it," said Sergeant Colon indignantly "I've always been very firhts of man"

"And dwarf," said Carrot

"Yeah, right," said the sergeant uncertainly "But all this business about kings and lords, it's against basic hunity We're all born equal It makes me sick"

"Never heard you talk like this before, Frederick," said Nobby

"It's Sergeant Colon to you, Nobby

"Sorry, Sergeant"

The fog itself was shaping up to be a real Ankh-Morpork autuh it as the droplets buckled down to a good day's work soaking him to the skin

"I can just make him out," he said "Turn left here"

"Any ideas where we are?" said Lady Ramkin

"Business district so a bit He kept looking up and whining

"Can't see a da," he said "I wonder if-"

The fog, as if in acknowledgement, lit up Ahead of them it blossomed like a chrysanthemum and made a noise like "whooain!"

"Like a pea-souper, only s in it you'd probably rather not know about

"Are the Cups of Integrity well and truly suffused?" intoned Brother Watchtower

"Aye, suffused full well"

"The Waters of the World, are they Abjured?"