The Colour of Magic

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burial in deep caves on land was earlier ruled out after some districts complained of walking trees and five- headed cats

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but unwisely tried to investigate the Luggage before slaughtering the sleepers

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carried as it was through space on the backs of four giant turtle-riding elephants

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in this dim light there was something odd about the way he was slumped in the stone chair

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During his life they had appeared to others to be eight-faceted and eerily insectile

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and there had been slaves aplenty, in the first days of the Power

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in a voice like the sound of a finger dragged around the rim of a large empty wine glass

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this usually woke him up with his ankles sweating; he would have been even more worried had he known that the nightmare was not, as he thought, just the usual discworld vertigo. It was a backwards memory of an event in his future so terrifying that it had generated harmonics of fear all the way along his lifeline

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instead of sending one of his numerous servants, as is usually the case

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as they stopped in front of another door

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as they dragged the door open

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and dragons had come this way once, it seemed; there was a room full of rotting harness, dragon-sized, and another room containing plate and chain mail big enough for elephants

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and, until I was poisoned some three months ago, I

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Owing to the density of the magical field surrounding the disc, light itself moved at sub-sonic speeds; this interesting property was well utilised by the Sorca people of the Great Nef, for example, who over the centuries had constructed intricate and delicate dams, and valleys walled with polished silica, to catch the slow sunlight and sort of store it. The scintillating reservoirs of the Nef, overflowing after several weeks of uninterrupted sunlight, were a truly magnificent sight from the air and it is therefore unfortunate that Twoflower and Rincewind did not happen to glance in that direction.

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however, they had not. See below