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'Obvious, when you think about it,' said Lu-Tze, as much to himself as to Ronnie Then he turned in his seat and stuck out his hand 'Pleased to uess your name' And said it Susan had been unusually inexact To call Wienrich and Boettcher 'chocolateLeonard of Quirs', or Death 'not someone you'd want to meet every day' It was accurate, but it didn't tell the whole story For one thing, they didn't make, they created There's an important difference[17] And, while their select little shop sold the results, it didn't do anything so crass as to fill the ith theerness Generally, W&B had a display of silk and velvet drapes with, on a small stand, perhaps one of their special pralines or no more than three of their renowned frosted cara If you had to ask the price of W&B's chocolates, you couldn't afford them And if you'd tasted one, and still couldn't afford them, you'd save and scrimp and rob and sell elderly members of your family for just one ue and turned your soul to whipped cream There was a discreet drain in the pave in front of thedrooled too ners, and according to Ankh-Morpork's Guild of Confectioners they did not understand the peculiarities of the city's tastebuds Ankh-Morpork people, said the Guild, were hearty, no-nonsense folk who did not want chocolate that was stuffed with cocoa liquor, and were certainly not like effete la-di-dah foreigners anted crea In fact they actually preferred chocolate ar, suet, hooves, lips, s, plaster, flies, tallow, bits of tree, hair, lint, spiders and powdered cocoa husks This reat chocolate centres in Borogravia and Quirm, Ankh-Morpork chocolate was for the wrong colour, being defined as 'tile grout' Susan allowed herself one of their cheaper boxes per month And she could easily stop at the first layer if she wanted to 'You needn't coid customers lined the counter 'Please call me Myria'

'I don't think I-'

'Please?' said Lady LeJean meekly 'A na, Susan felt a brief pang of sympathy for the creature 'Oh, very well Myria, you needn't coht chocolate was a raging te firm with herself 'It is' They stared up at the shelves behind the counter 'MyriaMyria,' said Susan, speaking only sohts aloud 'Fro "innuion"Oh dear'

'We thought a na is,' said her ladyship 'And there is safety in numbers I am sorry'

'Well, these are their basic assort the shop display with a wave of her hand 'Let's try the back rooht?'

'I a 'You're not going to pig out on me, are you?'

'We I know about will-power The body craves the chocolate but the mind does not At least, so I tell myself And it must be true! The mind can overrule the body! Otherwise, what is it for?'

'I've often wondered,' said Susan, pushing open another door 'Ah The ic here?'

'Nearly right' Lady LeJean leaned on the door frame for support when she saw the tables 'Oh,' she said 'UhI can detect sugar, milk, butter, creae peel, various liqueurs, citrus pectin, strawberries, raspberries, essence of violets, cherries, pineapples, pistachios, oranges, li there to be frightened of, right?' said Susan, surveying the workshop for useful weaponry 'Cocoa is just a rather bitter bean, after all'

'Yes, but' Lady LeJean clenched her fists, shut her eyes and bared her teeth, 'put theether and they make-'

'Steady, steady'

'The will can overrule the emotions, the will can overrule the instincts-' the Auditor intoned 'Good, good, now just work your way up to the bit where it says chocolate, okay?'

'That's the hard one!'

In fact it seemed to Susan, as she walked past the vats and counters, that chocolate lost some of its attraction when you saw it like this It was the difference between seeing the little heaps of pige that see intensely personal to feh she decided that here it was probably used for doing the wiggly bits of decoration And over here was a small vat of cocoa liquor She stared around at the trays and trays of fondant cremes, marzipans and caras But they weren't the hollow-shelled, cardboard tasting presents for children, oh, no - these were the confectionery equivalent of fine, intricate jewellery Out of the corner of her eye she saw movement One of the statue-like workers bent over her tray of Praline Drea into the roolinted in the air She turned and saw a vaguely hu beside her It was featureless and as transparent as er You are uess how hard it is to find it again in so many? Get e into the ar Myria 'Grab that AndI want you to be carrying as s as possible And the creods, there was no alternative The poor thing needed some kind of morale boost 'Please, Myria? And that's a stupid name! You're not many, you're one Okay? Just be yourself Unity that'd be a good name' The new Unity raised a ood name' Susan snatched asbehind her, and turned to find Unity standing to attention holding, by the look of it, a bench-worth of assorted confectionery ina sort of big cerise sack 'Oh Good Intelligent use of the materials to hand,' said Susan weakly Then the teacher within her cut in and added, 'I hope you brought enough for everybody''You were the first,' said Lu-Tze 'You basically created the whole business Innovative, you were'

'That was then,' said Ronnie Soak 'It's all changed now'

'Not like it used to be,' agreed Lu-Tze