'Look, this is getting silly,' said the first speaker. 'If we go around looking at the problems the whole time, we'll never do anything.'
'It just pays to think things through first, that's all I'm saying. Such as, what happens even if we beat the dragon?''
'Oh, come on!' said Sergeant Colon.
'No, seriously. What's the alternative?'
'A human being, for a start!'
'Please yourself,' said the little man primly. 'But I reckon one person a month is pretty good compared to some rulers we've had. Anyone remember Nersh the Lunatic? Or Giggling Lord Smince and his Laugh-A-Minute Dungeon?'
There was a certain amount of mumbling of the 'he's got a point' variety.
'But they got overthrown!' said Colon.
'No they didn't. They were assassinated.'
'Same thing,' said Colon. 'I mean, no one's going to assassinate the dragon. It'd take more than a dark night and a sharp knife to see it off, I know that.''
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