In the first part of Lords and Ladies<\/i>, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s time to read on. Intrigued? Then it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s time for Mark to read Discworld<\/i>.<\/p>\n
This is an interesting start, I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t get it, and I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m perfectly fine with that. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a start that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s ambiguous in nature because clearly, Pratchett is teasing me with possibilities. At the center of this is a bunch of stones from space, made up of a kind of iron that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 well, magical. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m fine stating that because hey! It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a Discworld<\/i> novel. Magic is everywhere.<\/p>\n
We\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve seen these stones before; I remember reading about them at least once in a past book, and all I knew was that you had<\/i> to stay away from them. But I was fooled! When Pratchett took us to \u00e2\u20ac\u0153fifty years or more before the ever-moving now<\/i>,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d I assumed we were meeting a new character named Esmerelda for the first time. Except doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t it make a lot of sense that Granny Weatherwax once approached the very stones she was supposed to stay away from, just because she was curious?<\/p>\n
Well, she\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s more than just curious. Gods, I should have figured out this was Granny, because what other<\/i> young woman would be so proud and so fierce when facing an otherworldly being offering the temptation of power? I mean, that is<\/i> what\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s happening here, right? Dark-haired women in red dresses don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t just appear in a mysterious circle of powerful iron stones and offer people puppies<\/i>. They should<\/i>, but they don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t.<\/p>\n
But good ol\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 Esmerelda, she doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t want anything from this woman aside from a confirmation that she\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s real.<\/p>\n
\u00e2\u20ac\u0153And now that you have learned this,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said the woman in the circle, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153what is it that you really want?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n
\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Nothing.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n
\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Really? Last week you went all the way up to the mountains above Copperhead to talk to the trolls. What did you want from them?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
SHE WANTED TO HAVE A CONVERSATION WITH THEM. THIS IS SO AMAZING TO ME. But doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t this seem perfectly in character for a younger version of Granny Weatherwax? She sought out knowledge and understanding when she wanted it and on her own terms. Even when the woman tries to insist that Esmerelda won\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t be a witch, she\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s certain she will<\/i> be a witch.<\/p>\n
But did she step through the circle or not all those years ago? Something<\/i> happened, and the witches of Lancre must have stopped the woman in red. Why else would she return, years later, and insist that it was now time for the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153land\u00e2\u20ac\u009d to \u00e2\u20ac\u0153welcome\u00e2\u20ac\u009d them? Who are the other figures on horseback? Who is Lankin? WHAT IS GOING TO HAPPEN SOON<\/i>?<\/p>\n
I also find myself intrigued by Jason Ogg\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s story here. So, whatever is in this ore is more than just magical. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s special enough that the Ogg family has passed down a tradition of fitting Death\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s horses with new shoes. What mystifies me here is that Death constantly <\/i>appears to people without any bit of the ceremony that Jason has here. Jason wears a blindfold when Death arrives; he doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t touch Death; and the entire affair feels like some kind of mystical ritual that would<\/i> end in Jason\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s death if he didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t follow it. But\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 Death doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t care about that, not normally.<\/p>\n
Hmmm. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s got to be part of the bargain:<\/p>\n
But that was the bargain \u00e2\u20ac\u201c you shod anything they brought to you, anything<\/i>, and the payment was that you could<\/i> shoe anything. There had always been a smith in Lancre, and everyone knew the smith in Lancre was a very powerful smith indeed.<\/p>\n
It was an ancient bargain, and it had something to do with iron.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t get it yet. But I never do this early on in a Discworld <\/i>book! That\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s okay, though, because this is a book about the glorious three witches that I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve come to love, and I honestly didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t expect to get one so soon after Witches Abroad<\/i>. LET\u00e2\u20ac\u2122S DO THIS.<\/p>\n
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