'And there's the sign, Ridcully,' said the Dean. ![]() And finally it had, up until this morning, been hidden by a bookcase that had been put in front of it. Dozens of nails secured it to the door frame. There was no doubt that whoever had shut it wanted it to stay shut. What the hell.' The senior wizards of Unseen University stood and looked at the door. And much, much earlier than that, when the Discworld was formed, drifting an alternative hypothesis as 'Things just happen. And earlier still when something in the darkness of the deepest caves and gloomiest forests thought: what are they, these creatures? I will observe them. Later on they took the blood out to make the stories more acceptable to children, or at least to the people who had to read them to children rather than the children themselves (who, on the whole, are quite keen on blood provided it's being shed by the deserving), and then wondered where the stories went. ![]() I think that, on reflection, we should have wondered a bit more about that.') But it was much earlier even than that when most people forgot that the very oldest stories are, sooner or later, about blood. ![]() Something began when the Guild of Assassins enrolled Mister Teatime, who saw things differently from other people, and one of the ways that he saw things differently from other people was in seeing other people as things (later, Lord Downey of the Guild said, 'We took pity on him because he'd lost both parents at an early age. To find some point in the twisting, knotting, ravelling nets of space-time on which a metaphorical finger can be put to indicate that here, here, is the point where it all began.
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