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"It will certainly be a challenge to go where no one has gone before," said Carrot "Wrong! We're going where no one has come back from before" Rincewind hesitated "Well, except o that far, and I sort of dropped on to the Disc again"

"Yes, they told me about it What did you see?"

"My whole life, passing in front ofain over his sewing Evetything about the man was neat, in a workhly He also seeristle between the ears But co an iconograph and lots of paint for the imp You know the wizards want us to make all kinds of observations?" Carrot went on "They say it's a once-in-a-lifeti any friends here, you know," said Rincewind "Have you any idea what it is that the Silver Horde wants?"

"Drink, treasure, and women," said Rincewind "But I think they may have eased back on the last one"

"But didn't they have more or less all of that anyway?" Rincewind nodded That was the puzzler The Horde had it all They had everything that money could buy, and since there was a lot ofIt occurred to hi, all that was left was nothing The valley was full of cool green light, reflected off the towering ice of the centraland asking one another to speak up, walked the Silver Horde Behind the almost bent double with horror and dread, white- faced, like a s, cahts had been ripped off He was soaking wet, although parts of his clothing were singed The twanging re hand had been half bitten away Here was a man who had truly seen life, o," said Caleb "More sad than mad I've known monks that frothed"

"And so past their date with the knackerman, and that's the truth" said Truckle "Honestly, I felt e theood," said Cohen "Real big buggers"

"Just as well, really, since we've run out of walrus" said Evil Harry "Wonderful display by your henchmen Harry," said Cohen "Stupidity wasn't the word for it Never seen so many people hit themselves over the head with their oords"

"They were good lads," said Harry "Morons to the end" Cohen grinned at Boy Willie, as sucking a cut finger "Teeth," he said "Huhthe answer is always "teeth", is it?"

"All right, all right, soue"" said Boy Willie He turned to thetaranchula?" be said Thebroke

"Ma," he bleated The rest of the Horde gathered round quickly There was no sense in letting just one of the about that bit where that fish sed me and I cut my way out front inside, okay?""

"Ma "

"And did you get that bit when I killed that big six-armed dancin' statue?"

"Ma "

"What're you talkin' about? It was me what killed that statue?"

"Yeah? Well, I clove him clean in twain, mate No one could have survived that? "Why didn't you just cut 'is 'ead off?"

"Couldn't Someone'd already done that"

"Ere, 'e's not writin' this down! Why isn't 'e writin this down? Cohen, you tell 'iot to write this down!"

"Let hireed with him"

"Don't see why," said Truckle "I pulled him out before it'd hardly chewed him And he must've dried out nicely in that corridor You know, the one where the flames shot up out of the floor unexpectedly"

"I reckon our bard wasn't expecting flames to shoot out of the floor unexpectedly" said Cohen Truckle shrugged theatrically "Well, if you're not going to expect unexpected fla anywhere?"