V=33/51
B=11/29
FanFic
Snapecase was dead. He didn't go without a fight; he had managed to take Ludorum with him, leaving the Guild without one of its finest members, but he was dead, Vetinari was certain of it. He was conveniently out of the city at the time but the scene had been set and he would soon be summoned from his trip to take over as newly elected Patrician. He had been visiting his "sick aunt in Genua" an excuse favoured at the Unseen University during times of trouble where someone has to take the blame. Going against his usually calculating nature he had decided to make a detour through Uberwald to visit an old friend.
Igor met him at the door.
"Good evening Marthter and congratulationth on your new post." He said
"Thank you Igor," he replied, ignoring the slight laps in the man(ish)'s lisp.
"Havelock! Vat a surprise!"
Vetinari turned to greet Lady Margolotta as she swept down the corridor. He kissed the hand that was extended to him and smiled warmly at his old mentor. A glint of gold caught his eye and he craned his neck to see its source.
"I see you've found yourself another stray, Margolotta," he said, nodding to the young girl with honey blonde hair who stood in the doorway of her Ladyship's drawing room.
"Bia darling come and say hello," Ladyship told her, the girl approached them unsurely and bobbed a small curtsey "Havelock this is my niece Bianca, she'll be attending the Guild school after summer."
"Would you like me to keep an eye on you, Bianca?" he asked the girl, she considered his question, looking him up and down with the shamelessness that comes with being of a mostly innocent age.
"Only if you call me Bia," she replied "I hate being called Bianca; it normally means I'm in trouble. Do you like dogs?"
"Yes," the almost Patrician raised an eyebrow, intrigued by the girl "why do you ask?"
"My dog's had puppies but I can't keep them all and Aunty Margolotta doesn't like dogs."
"Show me," Vetinari said. He held out his hand and allowed the girl to pull him out into the courtyard and over to a stable. Looking over the door he found he was looking at a group of over-excited wire haired terriers. Bia let him into the stable and they stood by watching the puppies.
Before long one particularly energetic dog wandered over and began to sniff at the hem of Havelock's robe. It gave him a playful look and sat looking expectantly at him. Bia reached into her pocket and pulled out a packet of Trucklement's Yummy Assortment dog biscuits.
"He wants one of these," she told Havelock. He reached in and pulled one out to give it to the puppy, but the girl grabbed his wrist, she would do well at the Assassin's school, she had quick reflexes,
"Not the yellow ones, Wuffles hates the yellow ones."
Havelock smiled at the dog as he exchanged the hated treat for a green one,
"So your called Wuffles are you?"