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'So to another person, but that person is also you' She could tell this disturbed the other Auditors 'I do not wish to continue in this way any longer than necessary,' she added And realized that she had lied One said, We do not blame you Lady LeJean nodded The Auditors could see into huhts But they could not read theies flow froswatch decoration What they couldn't see as happening So they'd built one It was the logical thing to do They'd used huents before, because early on they'd worked out that there were old This was puzzling, because gold did not seenificant value for a human body - it needed iron and copper and zinc, but only the old Therefore, they'd reasoned, this was further evidence that the humans who required it were flawed, and this hy attempts to make use of the a hu was easy; the Auditors knew exactly how to move matter around The trouble was that the result didn't do anything but lie there and, eventually, decos, without any special training or education, see replicas quite easily Then they learned that they could make a human body which worked if an Auditor was inside it There were, of course, huge risks Death was one of theet a life They strove to be as indistinguishable as hydrogen atoms, and with none of the latter's joie de vivre So' the body But lengthy consultation decided that if the driver took care, and liaised at all times with the rest of the Auditors, this risk was oal They built a woical choice After all, while men wielded more obvious power than woer, and no Auditor liked the prospect of personal danger Beautiful wos, on the other hand,at powerful men The whole subject of 'beauty' caused the Auditors a lot of difficulty It made no sense at a molecular level But research turned up the fact that the wo Ferret by Leonard of Quirm was considered the epitome of beauty, and so they'd based Lady LeJean on that They had es, of course The face in the picture was asymmetrical and full of minor flahich they had carefully removed

The result would have been successful beyond the Auditors' wildest drea horse, their reliable hu fast, or at least collecting data, which they considered to be the sa So was Lady LeJean She had been a hu weeks Whoever would have guessed that a brain operated like this? Or that colours had athat ay beyond spectral analysis? How could she even begin to describe the blueness of blue? Or howHalf the tihts seemed not to be her own She had been quite surprised to find that she did not want to tell the other Auditors this She did not want to tell thes And she didn't have to! She had power Oh, over Jeremy, that was not in question and was now, she had to ads by itself, like blush But she had power over the other Auditors, too She made them nervous Of course, she wanted the project to work It was their goal A tidy and predictable universe, where everything stayed in its place If Auditors dreamed, this would be another dreaway, and the universe was turning out to be a lot more chaotic than even the Auditors had ever suspected A lot of the chaos was happening inside Lady LeJean's head Tick Lu-Tze and Lobsang passed through Bong Phut and Long Nap like ghosts in twilight People and animals were blueish statues and were not, said Lu-Tze, to be touched in any circu with food fro sure to leave little copper tokens in their place 'Itas well 'The next ive someone a minute or two'

'Awooodbye to her children, it's a lifetime,' said Lu-Tze 'Is it not written, "Every second counts"? Let's go'

'I'm tired, Sweeper'

'I did say every second counts'

'But everybody has to sleep!'

'Yes, but not yet,' Lu-Tze insisted 'We can rest in the caves down at Songset Can't fold time while you're asleep, see?'

'Can't we use the spinners?'

'In theory, yes'

'In theory? They could wind out time for us We'd only sleep for a few seconds-'

'They're for eencies only,' said Lu-Tze bluntly 'How do you define an eency is when I decide its tined by Qu, wonder boy A lifebelt's for saving your life That's when I'll trust an uncalibrated, unblessed spinner powered by springs When I have to I know Qu says-' Lobsang blinked and shook his head Lu-Tze grabbed his ar a tooth out inhis head He pointed 'It came from over there'

'A pain calared at the boy 'Like last ti which way-' He stopped and rued in his sack Then he used the sack to sweep snow off a flat boulder 'Well see what-' Glass house This ti could concentrate on the tones that filled the air Wet finger on a wineglass? Well, you could start there But the finger would have to be the finger of a god on the glass of so tones did not si blur beyond the walls was getting closer now It was just beyond the closest wall, then it found the open doorway and vanished So there that he could see, but he feltwar the contents of a srains bounced and spread They did not have the sensitivity of the Mandala itself, but there was a blue bloo a sharp look 'It's been proved that no one can do what you just did,' he said 'We've never found any way of detecting where a disturbance in ti raised a hand to his cheek It was dae-' Lu-Tze stopped 'Ankh-Morpork's that way,' he said 'Did you know that?'

'No! Anyway, you said you had a feeling things would happen in Ankh-Morpork!'