whale_in_that_case



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    Penelope wakes up to the sound of screams.

    With a gasp, she sits upright, straining her ears. The carnage is at the far end of the castle, the shouting and clanking of metal- but it is not her maids, or her soldiers who are dying.

    It is the suitors.

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    “What are you carving?” a few of the children ask, the younger ones hiding behind the backs of their older, braver siblings.
    “I don’t know yet,” the king replies. “But I think it’s important.”

     

    Or: In which Odysseus amasses a small army of Ithacan children, a very large army of wooden soldiers, and the support system to heal just that little bit further.

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    “I see,” Vetinari said mildly, taking a small orange from somewhere unseen and rolling it between his palms. “Might it be that you are facing shortages?”
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    Lord Vetinari does not interfere with guild business, guild business has a habit of interfering with itself. He merely... helps things along occasionally.

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    Ever since they began this little ritual some months ago Vimes has refused to improve his Thud game, probably out of spite.

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    There's few things commander Vimes enjoys less than attending yet another weirdly specific diplomatic symposium, blindly searching for missing tyrants might be one of them.

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