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back in the warm water. The inner voice was still in there somewhere, but he tried not to pay any attention. About now, it was saying, you'd be proceeding along the Street of Small Gods, just by the bit of old city wall where you could stop and smoke aThey'd brought torches. Shadows jumped among the pillars in the big cavern, and fled along the tunnels. Whatever the possible lurking dangers, Carrot was beside himself with the joy of discovery.
'It's amazing! The Via Cloaca is mentioned in some old book I read, but everyone thought it was a lost street! Superb workmanship. Lucky for you the river was so low. It looks as though these are normally full of water.'
'That's what I said,' said Cuddy. 'Full of water, I said.'
He glanced cautiously at the dancing shadows, which made weird and worrying shapes on the far wall -strange biped animals, eldritch underground things . . .
Carrot sighed. rollup out of the wind . . .To drown it out, he started to sing at the top of his voice. The cavernous sewers under the city echoed with human and near-human voices for the first time in millennia.'Hi-ho—''—hi-ho—''Oook oook oook oook ook—''You all stupid!''I can't help it. It's my nearly-dwarfish blood. We just like singing underground. It comes naturally to us.''All right, but why him singing? Him ape.''He's a people person.'
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