I do not own Discworld, I do not own l-space, but I do own bob, the thief
of fire, and my interpretation, is that the disc sits on the back of the
elephants, and their heads stick out the sides, this may be completely
wrong compared with how it should be, but that is how it is when my story
is (if this gets on your nerves, try to think of it in terms of quantum,
and the trousers of time)
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A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away is an area adjacent to a location, the sort of place where you might find a weird mirror. Currently in that area is an enormous turtle bigger than some worlds, and on the back, are 4 elephants, holding a slowly revolving world, in the same general shape as a disc.
On this disc, stories happen, DEATH stalks the night looking for a decent curry, witches fly through the air on broomsticks, bickering about whether they left the oven on.
At the precise moment this introduction began a man was crouching on one of the elephant's trunks, which was lying on the disc, next to a small boat. If time were resumed, the man would be sliding down the trunk faster than the speed of light (which on the disc is very sluggish, so sometimes arrows get distorted a little as they race against the light particles.)
Mirrors have mystical properties, indeed any reflective surface does, in the Unseen University building in Ankh-Morpork, there is a mirror, called an Omniscope, it can be tuned to any where and any when if you have the proper skills. Say the mirror was tuned to 16 years ago and a little village of Stoat in the Ramtop Mountains. It wasn't a dark and stormy night, it was actually quite light what with it being just after sun down and there wasn't a cloud in the sky. But this sort of night demands darkness and storms, because at the same time as a new life was arriving on the disc, a life was leaving it, and on a night like this, one can never be sure what is going to happen. The lens zooms in, to one little cottage, it looks like a witch's cottage, but it has bedrooms built on as if she had a family, the lens zooms in, through the roof, a babies voice can be heard, screaming, fresh from the womb. The screen zooms forward, round a corner, and you can now see the midwife carrying the baby out of a room, and reverently closing the door on the sleeping mother, she hears the baby choke,
"No, no, you aren't going to do this, not to him!"
I DON'T HAVE A CHOICE
Said a heavy voice from the shadows
"You do"
NO, I ONLY HAVE ONE OPTION, YOU, ON THE OTHER HAND, HAVE 2 OR 3, BUT YOUR MOTHER IS STILL YOUNG, SHE CAN HAVE ANOTHER BABY
"Our father is dead, my mum wants this new baby, it has to survive,"
She pushed her fingers against the baby's chest, trying to give it CPR; it coughed a bit, and then stopped again.
IT IS USELESS, RESISTANCE IS FUTILE,
"Fine, Bob can have my life!"
WHAT?
"You heard me."
ARE YOU SURE
"Yes. My life s over, I will never be a witch, I don't have the power."
WHAT ABOUT YOUR ABILITY TO FOCUS YOUR LUCK?
"Parlour magic."
YOUR SKILL AT CLIMING?
"Please, any one can climb in the Ramtops, look, he won't last much longer, take me now!"
AS YOU WISH
Death stepped out of the shadows, and did a complex business with two life timers; the one on his right shrunk to roughly a fifth of its size and the one on his left grew dramatically. The baby woke up, and colour returned to his cheeks. While the girl suddenly went pale, she carefully lowered the baby into the cot and walked out of the house.
"My sister will wake soon, how long have I got left"
ABOUT 10 SECONDS
The skeleton swung the scythe, and disconnected the body from her soul; the body slumped onto the floor.
[What now? Hey, what happened to my voice? ]
YOU ARE NO LONGER USING AIR TO SPEAK, YOU ARE COMMUNICATING DIRECTLY BY THOUGHT
[Hajubajaja. Hey, why don't I care about my brother anymore? ]
THAT'S ALL DONE WITH GLANDS
[Oh.]
[So, what happens now?]
YOUR BROTHER SHALL LIVE THE REST OF YOUR LIFE, HE SHALL HAVE YOUR SKILLS, AND YOU SHALL HAVE THE NEXT BODY HE WAS PLANNED FOR
[Oh, well, bye then.]
The girl vanished
I PREFER: SEE YOU LATER
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A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away is an area adjacent to a location, the sort of place where you might find a weird mirror. Currently in that area is an enormous turtle bigger than some worlds, and on the back, are 4 elephants, holding a slowly revolving world, in the same general shape as a disc.
On this disc, stories happen, DEATH stalks the night looking for a decent curry, witches fly through the air on broomsticks, bickering about whether they left the oven on.
At the precise moment this introduction began a man was crouching on one of the elephant's trunks, which was lying on the disc, next to a small boat. If time were resumed, the man would be sliding down the trunk faster than the speed of light (which on the disc is very sluggish, so sometimes arrows get distorted a little as they race against the light particles.)
Mirrors have mystical properties, indeed any reflective surface does, in the Unseen University building in Ankh-Morpork, there is a mirror, called an Omniscope, it can be tuned to any where and any when if you have the proper skills. Say the mirror was tuned to 16 years ago and a little village of Stoat in the Ramtop Mountains. It wasn't a dark and stormy night, it was actually quite light what with it being just after sun down and there wasn't a cloud in the sky. But this sort of night demands darkness and storms, because at the same time as a new life was arriving on the disc, a life was leaving it, and on a night like this, one can never be sure what is going to happen. The lens zooms in, to one little cottage, it looks like a witch's cottage, but it has bedrooms built on as if she had a family, the lens zooms in, through the roof, a babies voice can be heard, screaming, fresh from the womb. The screen zooms forward, round a corner, and you can now see the midwife carrying the baby out of a room, and reverently closing the door on the sleeping mother, she hears the baby choke,
"No, no, you aren't going to do this, not to him!"
I DON'T HAVE A CHOICE
Said a heavy voice from the shadows
"You do"
NO, I ONLY HAVE ONE OPTION, YOU, ON THE OTHER HAND, HAVE 2 OR 3, BUT YOUR MOTHER IS STILL YOUNG, SHE CAN HAVE ANOTHER BABY
"Our father is dead, my mum wants this new baby, it has to survive,"
She pushed her fingers against the baby's chest, trying to give it CPR; it coughed a bit, and then stopped again.
IT IS USELESS, RESISTANCE IS FUTILE,
"Fine, Bob can have my life!"
WHAT?
"You heard me."
ARE YOU SURE
"Yes. My life s over, I will never be a witch, I don't have the power."
WHAT ABOUT YOUR ABILITY TO FOCUS YOUR LUCK?
"Parlour magic."
YOUR SKILL AT CLIMING?
"Please, any one can climb in the Ramtops, look, he won't last much longer, take me now!"
AS YOU WISH
Death stepped out of the shadows, and did a complex business with two life timers; the one on his right shrunk to roughly a fifth of its size and the one on his left grew dramatically. The baby woke up, and colour returned to his cheeks. While the girl suddenly went pale, she carefully lowered the baby into the cot and walked out of the house.
"My sister will wake soon, how long have I got left"
ABOUT 10 SECONDS
The skeleton swung the scythe, and disconnected the body from her soul; the body slumped onto the floor.
[What now? Hey, what happened to my voice? ]
YOU ARE NO LONGER USING AIR TO SPEAK, YOU ARE COMMUNICATING DIRECTLY BY THOUGHT
[Hajubajaja. Hey, why don't I care about my brother anymore? ]
THAT'S ALL DONE WITH GLANDS
[Oh.]
[So, what happens now?]
YOUR BROTHER SHALL LIVE THE REST OF YOUR LIFE, HE SHALL HAVE YOUR SKILLS, AND YOU SHALL HAVE THE NEXT BODY HE WAS PLANNED FOR
[Oh, well, bye then.]
The girl vanished
I PREFER: SEE YOU LATER