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They looked down at the unconscious figure Silver dollars rolled across the cobbles

'Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear,' said Carrot 'Poor old Here'n'now He proive it up, too Oh well He picked up a leg

'How much money?' he said

'Looks like three dollars,' said Angua

'Well done The exact amount'

'No, the shopkeeper said--'

'Come on Back to the Watch House Come on, Here'n'now It's your lucky day'

'Why is it his lucky day?' said Angua 'He was caught, wasn't he?'

'Yes By us Thieves' Guild didn't get him first They aren't so kind as us'

Here'n'now's head bounced fro three dollars and then trotting straight hohed Carrot 'That's Here'n'now Worst thief in the world'

'But you said Thieves' Guild--'

'When you've been here a while, you'll understand how it all works,' said Carrot Here'n'now's head banged on the kerb 'Eventually,' Carrot added 'But it all does work You'd be amazed It all works I wish it didn't But it does'

While Here'n'noas being mildly concussed on the way to the safety of the Watch's jail, a doas being killed

He was a an alley with the assurance of one who is fully paid up this year with the Thieves' Guild when a hooded figure stepped out in front of him

'Beano?'

'Oh, helloit's Edward, right?'

The figure hesitated

'I was just going back to the Guild,' said Beano

The hooded figure nodded

'Are you OK?' said Beano

'I'ood of the city It is nothing p-ersonal'

He stepped behind the clown Beano felt a crunch, and then his own personal internal universe switched off

Then he sat up

'Ow,' he said, 'that hur--'

But it didn't

Edward d'Eath was looking down at him with a horrified expression

'OhI didn't mean to hit you that hard! I only wanted you out of the way!'

'Why'd you have to hitstole over Beano that Edasn't exactly looking at hilanced at the ground, and experienced that peculiar sensation known only to the recently dead -horror at what you see lying in front of you, followed by the nagging question: so who's doing the looking?

KNOCK KNOCK

He looked up 'Who's there?'

DEATH

'Death who?'

There was a chill in the air Beano waited Edas frantically patting his facewell, what until recently had been his face

I WONDERCAN WE START AGAIN? I DON'T SEEM TO HAVE THE HANG OF THIS

'Sorry?' said Beano

'I'm s-orry!' moaned Edward, 'I meant it for the best!'

Beano watched hishisthebody away

'Nothing personal, he says,' he said 'I' personal I should hate to think I've just been killed because it was personal'

IT'S JUST THAT IT HAS BEEN SUGGESTED THAT I SHOULD BE MORE OF A PEOPLE PERSON

'Ion really well

It's very hard to make friends in my job In your job too, I suppose'

BREAK IT TO THEM GENTLY, AS IT WERE

'One , the next minute dead Why?'

THINK OF IT MORE AS BEINGDIMENSIONALLY DIS-ADVANTAGED

The shade of Beano the clown turned to Death

'What are you talking about?'