Once evening, I was sitting at home before the fireplace and chewing tomorrow's work, when suddenly someone tapped on the the door. I didn’t expected anyone so I drew my sword.
"Come in!" I said.
Small bald man in strange croceate vesture entered into
door with knowing smile on his face.
He wielded some broom in his arm and he had a bag over
his shoulder.
"Do I bother you?"
"What can I do for you , Mr... Mr...?"
"Sweeper, Mr. Garrett, just Sweeper."
"Sit down, please."
I showed on the other chair before the fire.
Sweeper leant his broom beside door, panned his bag from
shoulders and sat down.
"So what ...?"
"I come from the world, whose existence you probably
do not even suspect. It's principles are based on other
foundations and axioms, than those you know and it looks
pretty unlikely. Carriage of history has tendences to
turn aside from ways of historical inevitability in this
world from time to time. And that‘s what society, which
I am member, feels as undesirable and we try very hard to
repair it."
"You you are evidently on bad a address, Mr.
Sweeper. I am thief, not historian."
Sweeper tilted more closely to me.
"Those who counteracts law have to occasionally help
with its adherence. Mandala undoubtly demand your
participation on solving of our problem. But not even
Abbot does exactly know why."
Sweeper set eyes on blazes in fireplace again.
"I don't know your Abbot, I don't know what Mandala
is and I really don't know how I could be of any help to
you."
"How the fire fine warms..." said Sweeper and
silenced for a while.
Then with sigh, which implied, that it indeed worried
him, said:
"We don't know it either. We only know, in order
that events become how they shall become, that namely you
are needed, right now and just in Ankh-Morpork."
"Would I have of it some profit?"
Sweeper bented to his sacks and took out some relatively
bulky and on look heavy purse.
"I suppose, that gold is very prized metal even in
your world."
"Well. Yes." I acceded.
"If you decide to cooperate with us, consider this
purse as approximately ten percent advance."
I balanced the purse and evaluated amount
„approximately“ as five thousand. Quite good money,
to be honest.
Sweeper added, "Of course, nobody will inhibit you
from er... gathering other resources along the way."
"When I should prepare for the trip?"
