![]() Space ripped apart again, with a sound like something dying or giving birth, and the Terror returned to wherever it had come from. Its eyes and mouth were gone, if they had ever really been there. ![]() The swarm died then, dropping from the skies into the flames like angels whose wings had been torn from their backs, like devils going home because their work had been done. In the end, there was nothing left but seven burning worlds, orbiting a shrunken sun. ![]() The people fell and lay still, all that they were and might have been, consumed in a moment. On the Hell its children had made for it. Instead the Terror fed, on the madness and the suffering and the destruction. The uncertain timbre of puberty was gone, and he spoke with the tones of a man. Stand aside, both of you.' Nefer's voice was strong and commanding. 'Am I not Pharaoh? Are you not bound to obey me? I wish to visit the Magus, and you dare not prevent me. 'That was because we relied on magic, but it is obvious that Rincewind is somehow hidden from magic. I parked on the road and lumbered up his gravel driveway, pausing enroute to wave pleasantly at his wife, who was working out in the gradenpruning carrots, or whateverhumming while she works, some tune I fail to recognize. 'Maybe the Creator was trying to teach him that when you hold your nose so high in the air, you can't see where you are going.' He prayed that the good spirits would be with him this time. When he judged they should be at the brink, he held his breath. Sister Verna was silent as the three horses thundered on. She stabbed him repeatedly in his ribs with her willow practice sword as he giggled and rolled from side to side. Prayers were still uttered in the name of the Unbeheld, and blessings murmured in the forbidden names of the Goddesses, but Yzordderrex was the true Lord now, the Autarch its mind and the Pivot its phallus. Thereafter, there would be no power, either secular or sacred, that did not originate in that city there would be no crossroads sign in any of the Reconciled Dominions that did not carry its name, nor any highway that did not have upon it somewhere a petitioner or penitent who'd turned his eyes towards Yzordderrex in hope of salvation. Yzordderrex became the heart of the Dominions. Overnight, the geography of the Imajica was transformed. 'They were both protecting me,' Mary explained. He's just a friend of my brother's.' Mary blushed at the lie, but Lakshmi did not seem to notice. Of course I'll come! The worst they can do is hang us, isn't it?' I know, I understand, and the important thing is, I am here, and you aren't alone.'
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