Witches Abroad (Discworld 12)

'Oh yes I is, Mistress Weatherwax. I never bin nothing else, just like you.'

'You brought us here?'

'No. You brought yourselves here. Of your own free will. To help someone, ain't that right? You decided to do it, ain't that right? No-one forced you, ain't that right? 'Cept yourselves.'

'She's right about all that,' said Nanny. 'We'd have felt it, if it was magic.'

"That's right,' said Granny. 'No-one forced us, except ourselves. What's your game, Mrs Gogol?'

'I ain't playing no game, Mistress Weatherwax. I just want back what's mine. I want justice. And I wants her stopped.'

'Her who?' said Nanny Ogg.

Granny's face had frozen into a mask.

'Her who's behind all this,' said Mrs Gogol. 'The Duc hasn't got the brains of a prawn, Mrs Ogg. I mean her. Her with her mirror magic. Her who likes to control. Her who's in charge. Her who's tinkering with destiny. Her that Mistress Weatherwax knows all about.'

Nanny Ogg was lost.

'What's she talking about, Esme?' she said.

Granny muttered something.

'What? Didn't hear you,' Nanny said.

Granny Weatherwax looked up, her face red with anger.

'She means my sister, Gytha! Right? Got that? Do you understand? Did you hear? My sister! Want me to repeat it again? Want to know who she's talking about? You want me to write it down? My sister! That's who! My sisterV

'They're sisters?' said Magrat.

Her tea had gone cold.

'I don't know,' said Ella. 'They look . . . alike. They keep themselves to themselves most of the time. But I can feel them watching. They're very good at watching.'

'And they make you do all the work?' she said.

'Well, I only have to cook for myself and the outside staff,' said Ella. 'And I don't mind the cleaning and the laundry all that much.'

'Do they do their own cooking, then?'

'I don't think so. They walk around the house at night, after I've gone to bed. Godmother Lilith says I must be kind to them and pity them because they can't talk, and always see that we've got plenty of cheese in the larder.'

'They eat nothing but cheese?' said Magrat.

'I don't think so,' said Ella.

'I should think the rats and mice get it, then, in an old place like this.'

'You know, it's a funny thing,' said Ella, 'but I've never seen a mouse anywhere in this house.'

Magrat shivered. She felt watched.

'Why don't you just walk away? I would.'

'Where to? Anyway, they always find me. Or they send the coachmen and grooms after me.'

'That's horrible!'