oh, this is good. This is very good. Because I bet you—oh! You’re also the lord emperor, aren’t you?” “Alas, yes.” “No, no, that’s perfect, because you know about magic. Kip’s never read any philosophy of magic, he always used to say ‘why do I need to know about magic, I have the Lays’, but he’s also the man who said ‘just don’t think about time,’and really, Fitzroy, he can’t get his own way all the time, can he?” “I understand,” Fitzroy said even more gravely, “that it’s bad for the character.”
