There were a lot of things he could say. 'Son of a bitch!' would have been a good one. Or he could say, 'Welcome to civilization!' He could have said, 'Laugh this one off!' He might have said, 'Fetch!' But he didn’t, because if he had said any of those things then he’d have known that what he had just done was murder.
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Zum Autor"Even our fears make us feel important, because we fear we might not be."
"Nanny Ogg looked under her bed in case there was a man there. Well, you never knew your luck."
"The beagle and the kobold approached, walking out of the dusty distance."
"Wizards don’t believe in gods. They didn’t deny their existence, of course. They just didn’t believe. It was nothing personal; they weren’t actually rude about it. Gods were a visible part of narrativium that made things work, that gave the world its purpose. It was just that they were best avoided close up."
"God does not play games with His loyal servants', said the Metatron, but in a worried tone of voice.'Whoopee', said Crowley."
"Commander, I always used to consider that you had a definite anti-authoritarian streak in you.”“Sir?”“It seems that you have managed to retain this even though you are authority.”“Sir?”“That’s practically zen."