Title: Windows Into Another Life
Challenge: a mistake
Words: 100
Notes: Vetinari and Leonard are Pterry's, much as I'd love to own both of them. Don't know if I captured what I wanted to, but I tried. Once again, originally for discworld100 LiveJournal.
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Vetinari didn't make mistakes.
That's what the people said, what all the people believed. He was the Patrician, he was cold, calculating. He knew all the little wheels, he knew how they turned, and he knew Ankh-Morpork better than anyone. Even his flaws were carefully calculated to give the image that he wanted to present, everything firmly under his control. Vetinari didn't make mistakes.
But sometimes, he looks at paintings from Leonard of Quirm. And it is looking through those windows into another life that Vetinari feels small pangs of regret, and wonders if he makes mistakes after all.
