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'His lordshipthat is, her ladyship's fatherhe required to have his back scrubbed,' said Willikins

'You go and help the old geyser stoke the furnace,' said Viled out of his breastplate and threw it in the corner The chainmail shirt followed it, and the helmet, and the money pouch, and various leather and cotton oddments that came between a Watcherly at first, into the suds

'Try soap Soap'11 work,' said Detritus

'Hold still, will you?' said Carrot

'You're twisting my head off!'

'Go on, soap him head'

'Soap your own head!'

There was a thung noise and Cuddy's hel, into the light He focused on the Librarian, and growled

'He hit me on the head!'

'Oook'

'He says you cah the floor,' said Carrot

'That's no reason to hit s that coh the floor at Unseen University don't even have a head,' said Carrot

'Oook!'

'Or they have hundreds Why were you digging down there?'

'We weren't digging down We were digging up'

Carrot sat and listened He interrupted only twice

'Shot at you?'

'Five tie to breastplate but not to backplate on account of fortunatelyvaluable city property worth three dollars'

Carrot listened some more

'Sewers?' he said, eventually

'It's like the whole city, underground We sans and stuff carved on the walls'

Carrot's eyes sparkled 'That s! And then e kept on rebuilding the city we forgot they were down there'

'Um That's not all that's down there,' said Cuddy 'Wefound so bad'

'You won't like it at all,' said Detritus 'Bad, bad, bad Even worse'

'We thought it would be best to leave it there,' said Cuddy, 'on account of it being Evidence But you ought to see it'

'It's going to upset everything,' said the troll, war to the part

'What was it?'

'If we tell you, you say, stupid ethnic people, you pullingoff,' said Detritus

'So you'd better coeant Colon looked at the rest of the Watch

'All of us?' he said, nervously 'Er Shouldn't a couple of senior officers stay up here? In case anything happens?'

'Do you ua, tartly 'Or in case anything happens down there?'

'I'll go with Lance-Constable Cuddy and Lance-Constable Detritus,' said Carrot 'I don't think anyone else ought to coua

'If I find who's been shooting at Watchmen,' said Carrot, 'it will be'

Sa toe and turned on the hot tap

There was a respectful knock at the door, and Willikins old-retainer'd in

'Would sir be wanting anything?'

Viht about it

'Lady Ra any alcohol,' said Willikins, as if reading his thoughts

'Did she?'

'Ear'

He winced as Vimes bit the end off and spat it over the side of the bath, but produced some matches and lit it for him

'Thank you, Willikins What's your first name?'

'First name, sir?'

'I ot to know you better?'

'Willikins, sir'

'Oh Right, then Well You o, Willikins'

'Yes, sir'

Vimes lay back in the ater The inner voice was still in there somewhere, but he tried not to pay any attention About now, it was saying, you'd be proceeding along the Street of Small Gods, just by the bit of old city here you could stop and smoke a rollup out of the wind

To drown it out, he started to sing at the top of his voice

The cavernous sewers under the city echoed with human and near-human voices for the first time in millennia

'Hi-ho--'

'--hi-ho--'

'Oook oook oook oook ook--'

'You all stupid!'

'I can't help it It's round It coing? Him ape'

'He's a people person'

They'd brought torches Shadows ju the tunnels Whatever the possible lurking dangers, Carrot was beside hi! The Via Cloaca is ht it was a lost street! Superb workh these are normally full of water'

'That's what I said,' said Cuddy 'Full of water, I said'

He glanced cautiously at the dancing shadohich e biped anihed