Loudspeaker: Attention Passengers. The next XXXX Line train to XXXX is now arriving.
Sparrow: And what if she convinces a friend to zap Patrick with magic instead, huh?
Bianca: All right . . . Patrick! Don’t take any orders from a person working with Miranda Lake either, got it?
Patrick: Woof!
Sparrow: Okay, but what if . . .
I still don’t buy that she’s not gonna find some other way to get at Patrick the second you’re out of the room.
Or cave. Or whatever it is next time.
Patrick: But Bee’s using her name!
We even got lucky — Mandy has a Contract. That means the name she used for it — Miranda Lake — is guaranteed to be a true name of hers.
Names have more power than just about anything else! There’s no way to sneak around that!
Bianca: . . . Is that why you can’t say my name? Because if you could, it would be a way to have power over me?
Patrick: Exactly!
Sparrow: So that means, if my little Being issue is from some kind of spell . . . it can’t just be an accident? It would have to be someone who deliberately used my name?
Patrick: . . . most likely, yes.
Aww poor Sparrow. We gave up on it being an accident chapters ago. ;)
Speak for yourself. Sparrow/soul/twitter in hebrew was the name of the person who rewrote the being’s programming from humankilling machines into what they are now.
Sparrow was originally named in hebrew by her mom.
Totally was an accidentl
I love Bianca’s facial expressions throughout this one
*Look at Sparrow’s mother suspiciously*
Oh crap, the coven tried something they didn’t understand, didn’t they? I never thought of that but it makes sense
Remember kids, never try dangerous and possibly life-altering spells unless you’re being supervised by at least a level 7 spellcaster or higher.
I think Flyboy just won the comment thread.
XXXX? Is that in Milton, Brisbane in Australia? How did they get there?
I believe fourecks is a far away and exotic land in discworld where almost everything is trying to kill is and is definitely not a parody of Australia, as to how they got there… a wizard did it? =p